---
name: "flowscan"
section: "1"
platform: "linux"
package: "flowscan"
version: "1.006-13.2"
release: "Debian 10 (Buster)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/flowscan"
---

# flowscan(1)

flow-based IP traffic analysis and visualization tool

## NAME

flowscan - flow-based IP traffic analysis and visualization tool

## SYNOPSIS

**flowscan \[-hv\] \[-w secs\] \[-s bytes\] FlowScanClass \[...\]**

## DESCRIPTION

| | |
| --- | --- |
| -g | use this glob (file pattern match) when looking for raw flow files to be processed. Defaults to: 'flows.\*:\*\[0-9\]' (mnemonic: 'g'lob) |
| -h | shows this usage information (mnemonic: 'h'elp) |
| -v | verbose - show warnings (mnemonic: 'v'erbose) |
| -w secs | process the flow files, and wait secs seconds for new ones to appear. Flow file will be globbed using "flows.\*:\*\[0-9\]". (Don't pass flow file names as arguments when using this option.) |
| -s bytes | skip processing of files of size greater than bytes (mnemonic: 's'kip 's'ize) |

## SEE ALSO

[**add\_ds.pl**(1)](/add_ds.pl/1.md), [**add\_txrx**(1)](/add_txrx/1.md), [**event2vrule**(1)](/event2vrule/1.md), [**ip2hostname**(1)](/ip2hostname/1.md), [**locker**(1)](/locker/1.md)

## AUTHOR

This manual page was written by Anibal Monsalve Salazar, for the Debian Project.