pcap.yazi

Plugin for Yazi to preview .pcap files.

Preview

Installation

$> mkdir -p ~/.config/yazi/plugins
$> git clone https://github.com/mgumz/yazi-plugin-pcap.git ~/.config/yazi/plugins/pcap.yazi

Runtime dependencies

1. make ~/.config/yazi/plugins/pcap.yazi/util available within your $PATH variable - or put ~/.config/yazi/plugins/pcap.yazi/util/yazi-pcap-preview.sh into a $PATH folder.

2. Install tshark (usually as part of Wireshark)

3. Install bat

Configuration

Edit ~/.config/yazi/yazi.toml and add bat as the previewer for the file types of your choice.

[plugin]
prepend_previewers = [
    { name = "*.pcap", exec = "pcap" },
    { name = "*.pcapng", exec = "pcap" },
    { name = "*.pcap.gz", exec = "pcap" },
    { name = "*.pcap.lz4", exec = "pcap" },
    { name = "*.pcap.zst", exec = "pcap" },
]

tshark is pretty powerfull and you might play around with various options. yazi-pcap-preview.sh is applying some sane defaults (like, only extract the first 200 packets of a .pcap) - your mileage might vary. Feel invited to adjust that script.

References

• Yazi - A fast terminal file manager
• Wireshark - The world's most popular network protocol analyzer
• Bat - A cat(1) clone with wings