Dump network traffic with tcpdump to file with time-stamp in its filename 

date +"%Y-%m-%d_%H-%M-%Z" | xargs -I {} bash -c "sudo tcpdump -nq -s 0 -i eth0 -w ./dump-{}.pcap"

May 17, 2013 — kowalcj0

Explanation

will dump the traffic into a file with a time-stamp in its name. Example filename:

dump-2013-05-17_15-46-UTC.pcap

networking traffic-analysis
xargs date tcpdump bash