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How to show two pcaps in different windows on macOS?

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I'm using the Wireshark for MAC, but if I open another pcap, it will cover the current window

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asked 2020-02-08 05:20:37 +0000
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updated 2020-02-08 09:05:33 +0000
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Just launch multiple instances from the terminal, as follows:

 /Applications/Wireshark.app/Contents/MacOS/Wireshark &
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answered 2020-02-08 08:12:41 +0000
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And you can provide the pathname to the file to open as an argument.

(No, this is not ideal, but there would have to be a significant amount of work done to allow one Wireshark process to have multiple files open, which is what would be required to have Wireshark work like a standard macOS application in that regard.)

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