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PRETTYPING(1) User Commands PRETTYPING(1)

NAME

prettyping - a better ping tool based on iputils-ping

SYNOPSIS

prettyping [prettypingparameters] <standardpingparameters>

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.

prettypingparameters:

--[no]color
Enable/disable color output. (default: enabled)
--[no]multicolor
Enable/disable multi-color unicode output. Has no effect if either color or unicode is disabled. (default: enabled)
--[no]unicode
Enable/disable unicode characters. (default: enabled)
--[no]legend
Enable/disable the latency legend. (default: enabled)
--[no]terminal
Force the output designed to a terminal. (default: auto)
Use the last "n" pings at the statistics line. (default: 60)
Override auto-detection of terminal dimensions.
Override auto-detection of terminal dimensions.
Minimum RTT represented in the unicode graph. (default: auto)
Maximum RTT represented in the unicode graph. (default: auto)
Override the awk interpreter. (default: awk)

--pingbin <exec> Override the ping tool. (default: ping)

-6
Shortcut for: --pingbin ping6

ping parameters handled by prettyping:

Audible ping is not implemented yet.
Flood mode is not allowed in prettyping.
Quiet output is not allowed in prettyping.
Record route mode is not allowed in prettyping.
Verbose output seems to be the default mode in ping.

All other parameters are passed directly to ping.

SEE ALSO

ping(8).

December 2019 prettyping 1.0.1