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Title : tping - ping with a timestamp
Author : Remy van Elst
Date : 03-09-2018
URL : https://raymii.org/s/snippets/tping_ping_with_a_timestamp.html
Format : Markdown/HTML
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tping is a bash alias I once got from an old co-worker. It's ping, but with a
timestamp. Instead of looking at the increased icmp_seq number you now have a
timestamp. Here's how it looks like:

$ tping 192.0.2.10
09:31:55: PING 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10) 56(84) bytes of data.
09:31:55: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=30 ttl=63 time=0.399 ms
09:31:56: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=31 ttl=63 time=0.530 ms
09:31:57: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=32 ttl=63 time=0.412 ms
09:31:58: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=33 ttl=63 time=0.469 ms
09:31:59: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=34 ttl=63 time=0.383 ms
09:32:00: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=35 ttl=63 time=0.402 ms
09:32:01: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=36 ttl=63 time=0.483 ms
09:32:02: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=37 ttl=63 time=0.409 ms
09:32:03: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=38 ttl=63 time=0.346 ms

09:36:20: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=289 ttl=63 time=1.51 ms
09:36:21: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=290 ttl=63 time=0.474 ms
09:36:22: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=291 ttl=63 time=0.698 ms
09:36:23: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=292 ttl=63 time=0.483 ms
09:36:24: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=293 ttl=63 time=0.482 ms
09:36:25: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=294 ttl=63 time=0.619 ms
09:36:26: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=295 ttl=63 time=0.498 ms
09:36:27: 64 bytes from 192.0.2.10 (192.0.2.10): icmp_seq=296 ttl=63 time=0.491 ms

The host went down on 09:32 and was back up on 09:36. This was a scheduled
reboot.

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### .bashrc function

The shell code for in your `.bashrc` file:

tping() {
ping $@ | while read pong; do
echo "$(date +"%T"): $pong";
done
}
alias tping=tping

Start a new shell our `source .bashrc` after you added this function.

### Prettyping

Another tool to get more visual information from ping is `prettyping`. It's
[open source on github][2] and looks like this:

![][3]

The red exclamation marks in the image represent a reboot of that server.

[1]: https://www.digitalocean.com/?refcode=7435ae6b8212
[2]: https://github.com/denilsonsa/prettyping
[3]: https://raymii.org/s/inc/img/prettyping.png

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