Re: Want to contribute a new gping

[Rob Landley]

On 6/14/24 06:02, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 14/06/2024 01:23, Alfredo Jacobo wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> There are already a couple of ping implementations,
> so I doubt adding another would be appropriate in this case.
> My Fedora system uses https://github.com/iputils/iputils
> and there is also https://www.gnu.org/software/inetutils/
> So I would suggest trying to add the new feature to those.

And https://git.busybox.net/busybox/tree/networking/ping.c and
https://github.com/landley/toybox/blob/master/toys/net/ping.c and...

Have you tried:

$ ping -c 3 127.0.0.1 | grep 'bytes from'
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0 ms
64 bytes from 127.0.0.1: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0 ms

Rob