prettyping - a better ping tool based on iputils-ping
prettyping [prettypingparameters]
<standardpingparameters>
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.
- --[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
- -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.