Hello, I'd like a certain ping feature but it doesn't exist. So, I'm looking into contributing it.
I hear this is the place to seek consensus? I'd submit it to gnu and call it gping. My new feature; wanted ping to never give the statistics at the end. Purpose is to make result output of batch pings to many machines less messy. In researching this, I found many people wanted the opposite; rolling statistics with each ping. Thought I'd implement that too. For that, I thought I'd add two flags to an open-source ping repo. Flags would be X for statistiX -x. No statistics at end -X. Statistics with every ping gping would behave normally and obey all other flags gping -x would give this result: /utils> gping -x 192.168.155.119 PING 192.168.155.119 (192.168.155.119): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.155.119: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=12.239 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.155.119: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.591 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.155.119: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.543 ms ^C <-- No ping statistics /utils> gping -X would give this result statistics numbers made up semicolon for grep purposes /utils> gping -X 192.168.155.119 PING 192.168.155.119 (192.168.155.119): 56 data bytes 64 bytes from 192.168.155.119: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=13.561 ms; 0.445/2.414/13.561/4.553 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.155.119: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.455 ms; 0.461/2.414/13.561/4.551 ms 64 bytes from 192.168.155.119: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.757 ms; 0.721/2.414/13.561/3.611 ms ^C <-- No ping statistics, already in output above /utils> Comments? -- *_/ _/ _/ Alfredo Jacobo ::: *ajpg.w...@gmail.com *_/ _/ _/ LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredojacobo/ <http://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredojacobo/> <http://www.linkedin.com/in/alfredojacobo/>*