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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, 2013kowalcj0