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)
- --last <n>
-
Use the last "n" pings at the statistics line. (default: 60)
- --columns <n>
-
Override auto-detection of terminal dimensions.
- --lines <n>
-
Override auto-detection of terminal dimensions.
- --rttmin <n>
-
Minimum RTT represented in the unicode graph. (default: auto)
- --rttmax <n>
-
Maximum RTT represented in the unicode graph. (default: auto)
- --awkbin <exec>
-
Override the awk interpreter. (default: awk)
--pingbin <exec> Override the ping tool. (default: ping)
- -6
-
Shortcut for: --pingbin ping6
ping parameters handled by prettyping:
- -a
-
Audible ping is not implemented yet.
- -f
-
Flood mode is not allowed in prettyping.
- -q
-
Quiet output is not allowed in prettyping.
- -R
-
Record route mode is not allowed in prettyping.
- -v
-
Verbose output seems to be the default mode in ping.
All other parameters are passed directly to ping.