Using Tshark commands How to produce "DHCP option 82" output in a user readable form (ASCII))

Question

I have DHCP option 82 value in pcap file ->click here

I am using the below tshark commmand to fetch option 82 value->click here

I want the option 82 output to be printed in ASCII format instead of binary and hexadecimal format.

Answer 1

You could use xxd to convert tshark's hexadecimal output into ASCII (after extracting the first column using awk):

$ echo "50:45:45:52 100 00:01" | awk '{print $1}' | xxd -r -p
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