.TH TRACESPLIT "1" "October 2005" "tracesplit (libtrace)" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
tracesplit \- split traces
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B tracemerge 
outputuri inputuri ...
.SH DESCRPTION
tracesplit splits one trace into multiple tracefiles
.TP
\fB\-f\fR bpf filter
output only packets that match tcpdump style bpf filter

.TP
\fB\-c\fR count
output count packets per output file

.TP
\fB\-b\fR bytes
output bytes bytes per file

.TP
\fB\-i\fR seconds
start a new tracefile after "seconds" seconds

.TP
\fB\-s\fR unixtime
don't output any packets before unixtime

.TP
\fB\-e\fR unixtime
don't output any packets after unixtime

.SH EXAMPLES
create a 1MB erf trace of port 80 traffic.
.nf
tracemerge erf:/traces/bigtrace.gz \-f 'port 80' \-b $[ 1024 * 1024 ] 
erf:/traces/port80.gz 
.fi

.SH SEE ALSO
libtrace(3), tracemerge(3)
.SH AUTHORS
Perry Lorier <perry@cs.waikato.ac.nz>