#!/usr/bin/env python3 # Extract the list of interfaces available for traffic dumps from tcpdump -D import re import subprocess if __name__ == '__main__': out = subprocess.check_output(['/usr/sbin/tcpdump', '-D']).decode().strip() out = out.split("\n") intfs = " ".join(map(lambda s: re.search(r'\d+\.(\S+)\s', s).group(1), out)) print(intfs)