7.4. Capture Files
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## 7.4. Capture Files

Wireshark can read and write capture files in its natural file formats, pcapng and pcap, which are used by many other network capturing tools, such as tcpdump. Additionally, Wireshark supports reading and writing packet capture files in formats used by other network capture tools. This support is implemented in Wireshark’s wiretap library, which provides a general purpose interface for reading and writing packet capture formats and supports more than twenty packet capture formats.

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