PRETTYPING(1)

📦 version 1.1.0, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu jammy, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

👑 PRETTYPING 💅

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands section of the manual, and this one is literally the glow-up your terminal has been waiting for. ✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

prettyping — a better ping tool based on iputils-ping. it's giving main character energy, but for network diagnostics. 🎀

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

prettyping [prettypingparameters] <standardpingparameters>

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

so here's the tea: this script is a wrapper around your system's ping tool. every single ping response line? gone. replaced with a colored character. the result is a super compact, super cute overview of your ping responses. no cap, it just looks better. 💅

🍓 prettypingparameters

these are the options that belong to prettyping itself, bestie:

  • --[no]color — turns color output on or off. (default: enabled) 🌈
  • --[no]multicolor — turns multi-color unicode output on or off. heads up tho: this does nothing if either color or unicode is disabled. (default: enabled) ✨
  • --[no]unicode — turns unicode characters on or off. (default: enabled) 🦋
  • --[no]legend — turns the latency legend on or off. (default: enabled) 🎀
  • --[no]terminal — forces the output to be the kind designed for a terminal. (default: auto) 💻
  • --last <n> — uses the last n pings in the statistics line. (default: 60) 🕰️
  • --columns <n> — overrides the auto-detection of terminal dimensions. 📐
  • --lines <n> — overrides the auto-detection of terminal dimensions. 📏
  • --rttmin <n> — the minimum RTT represented in the unicode graph. (default: auto) ⬇️
  • --rttmax <n> — the maximum RTT represented in the unicode graph. (default: auto) ⬆️
  • --awkbin <exec> — overrides the awk interpreter. (default: awk) 🧚
  • --pingbin <exec> — overrides the ping tool. (default: ping) 🛰️
  • -6 — shortcut for: --pingbin ping6 💜

👑 ping parameters handled by prettyping

these are the ping flags prettyping has opinions about:

  • -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. so go off, bestie, the rest is between you and ping. 🫶

🔥 SEE ALSO 🔥

ping(8). 🏓

and that's the whole page, babe — this was prettyping 1.0.1, dated December 2019. thanks for reading, ily, now go ping something and watch it sparkle. 💖✨🌸

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