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pingu
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🐧ping command but with pingu

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🐧 pingu

ping command implementation in Go but with colorful output and pingu ascii art

Language:Go License:MIT Latest Release

Features

  • [x] Colorful and fun output.
  • [x] Cross-platform support: Windows, macOS, and Linux (also WSL)
  • [x] It works with a single executable file, so it can be installed easily.
  • [x] Support IPv4 and IPv6.

Usage

Simply specify the target host name or IP address in the first argument e.g. pingu github.com or pingu 13.114.40.48. You can change the number of transmissions by specifying the -c option.

Usage:
  pingu [OPTIONS] HOST

ping command but with pingu

Application Options: -c, --count= Stop after <count> replies (default: 20) -P, --privilege Enable privileged mode -V, --version Show version

Help Options: -h, --help Show this help message

Installation

Download executable binaries

You can download executable binaries from the latest release page.

Latest Release

Build from source

To build from source, clone this repository then run make build or go install. Developing on go1.18.3 linux/amd64.

Another way to install it if you have go in your machine just:

go install github.com/sheepla/pingu@latest

WSL support

To run on WSL, give CAPNETRAW capability with the following command and start it with the -P, --privilege option.

sudo setcap capnetraw=+ep /path/to/pingu
pingu -P github.com

c.f.

Capability - Arch Linux Wiki

LICENSE

MIT

Author

Sheepla

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