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ngrep – A Network Packet Analyzer for Linux

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Aug 3, 2018

Ngrep (network grep) is a simple yet powerful network packet analyzer. It is a grep-like tool applied to the network layer-  it matches traffic passing over a network interface. It allows you to specify an extended regular or hexadecimal expression to match against data payloads (the actual information or message in transmitted data, but not auto-generated metadata) of packets.

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