PRETTYPING

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.

SEE ALSO

ping(8).