Prettyping

prettyping Plugin

A ping wrapper that adds colorful, informative output with live latency visualization, statistics, and a cleaner display.

Commands

Diagnostics

• prettyping host ping — Pretty-ping a host with colorful live output
• prettyping self version — Print prettyping version

Utility

• prettyping _ _ — Passthrough to prettyping CLI

Usage Examples

• "Ping google.com with pretty output"
• "Check if the server is reachable"
• "Monitor network latency over time"
• "Visualize packet loss"

Installation

curl -sL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/denilsonsa/prettyping/master/prettyping -o /usr/local/bin/prettyping
chmod +x /usr/local/bin/prettyping

Examples

# Ping a host
prettyping host ping google.com

# Ping with limited count
prettyping host ping --count 10 google.com

# Set interval
prettyping host ping --interval 0.5 google.com

# Disable colors for logging
prettyping host ping --nocolor google.com

# Disable multiline output (useful for piped output)
prettyping host ping --nomultiline google.com

# Disable unicode symbols
prettyping host ping --nounicode google.com

# Passthrough any option
prettyping _ _ 8.8.8.8

Key Features

• Colorful output — Color-coded latency values
• Live visualization — Unicode sparklines for latency trend
• Statistics — Min, max, avg, mdev at a glance
• Clean display — Less cluttered than standard ping
• Packet loss — Visual indicators for lost packets

Notes

• A single-file Bash script wrapper around standard ping
• Requires ping to be installed on the system
• Supports both IPv4 and IPv6
• Works on Linux, macOS, and BSD

Resources

• GitHub: https://github.com/denilsonsa/prettyping