prettyping mit Homebrew, apt, dnf, MacPorts, Nix, pacman installieren

Projektlinks

• Homepage
• Repository
• Paketmanager-Seite

Befehle und Aliase

• prettyping

Projektgeschichte

Denilson Sá created prettyping as a wrapper that runs the system ping command in the background and reformats its responses into a compact graphical terminal display. The project remained deliberately small, implemented as a Bash and awk script rather than a new ICMP stack.

Adoptionsgeschichte

The project’s portable Bash-and-awk implementation has been reported by its maintainer to work on Linux, macOS, BSD, BusyBox, and several awk implementations. source_facts.package-manager records packages across Homebrew, Debian, Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, MacPorts, and Nix.

Wie es verwendet wird

Users invoke prettyping with a host much like ordinary ping. It launches the installed ping implementation, parses its responses, and renders latency graphically with colors and Unicode characters. It requires no credentials and has no documented configuration file.

Warum Paket-Nerds sich dafür interessieren

prettyping exemplifies the classic shell-tool tradition: it improves a ubiquitous system command without replacing its networking implementation. Its single-script design, broad Unix portability, and colorful terminal visualization made it a natural fit for distribution repositories and dotfile collections.

Zeitleiste

• Project origin: Created as a Bash-and-awk presentation layer for the standard ping command.
• Packaging era: Adopted by multiple Linux distribution repositories and macOS-oriented package managers.

Related projects

• ping/iputils: Supplies the underlying network echo measurements that prettyping parses.
• oping: An alternative ping implementation noted as compatible in the official requirements.
• awk and Bash: The portable scripting runtimes used to implement prettyping.

Quellen

• https://denilsonsa.github.io/prettyping/
• https://github.com/denilsonsa/prettyping#readme
• source_facts.package-manager