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.TH PRETTYPING "1" "December 2019" "prettyping 1.0.1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
prettyping \- a better ping tool based on iputils-ping
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B prettyping
[\fI\,prettypingparameters\/\fR] \fI\,<standardpingparameters>\/\fR
.SH DESCRIPTION
This script is a wrapper around the system's "ping" tool. It will substitute
each ping response line by a colored character, giving a very compact overview
of the ping responses.
.SS "prettypingparameters:"
.TP
\fB\-\-[no]color\fR
Enable/disable color output. (default: enabled)
.TP
\fB\-\-[no]multicolor\fR 
Enable/disable multi\-color unicode output. Has no effect if
either color or unicode is disabled. (default: enabled)
.TP
\fB\-\-[no]unicode\fR
Enable/disable unicode characters. (default: enabled)
.TP
\fB\-\-[no]legend\fR
Enable/disable the latency legend. (default: enabled)
.TP
\fB\-\-[no]terminal\fR
Force the output designed to a terminal. (default: auto)
.TP
\fB\-\-last\fR <n>
Use the last "n" pings at the statistics line. (default: 60)
.TP
\fB\-\-columns\fR <n>
Override auto\-detection of terminal dimensions.
.TP
\fB\-\-lines\fR <n>
Override auto\-detection of terminal dimensions.
.TP
\fB\-\-rttmin\fR <n>
Minimum RTT represented in the unicode graph. (default: auto)
.TP
\fB\-\-rttmax\fR <n>
Maximum RTT represented in the unicode graph. (default: auto)
.TP
\fB\-\-awkbin\fR <exec>
Override the awk interpreter. (default: awk)
.HP
\fB\-\-pingbin\fR <exec> 
Override the ping tool. (default: ping)
.TP
\fB\-6\fR
Shortcut for: \fB\-\-pingbin\fR ping6
.SS "ping parameters handled by prettyping:"
.TP
\fB\-a\fR
Audible ping is not implemented yet.
.TP
\fB\-f\fR
Flood mode is not allowed in prettyping.
.TP
\fB\-q\fR
Quiet output is not allowed in prettyping.
.TP
\fB\-R\fR
Record route mode is not allowed in prettyping.
.TP
\fB\-v\fR
Verbose output seems to be the default mode in ping.
.PP
All other parameters are passed directly to ping.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.PP
\fBping\fR(8).