From 41519769863e5066987fc5ec0e37eb4bd4550ecf Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Erik Auerswald Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2024 20:22:44 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] improve help output for options -c and -C --- src/fping.c | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/fping.c b/src/fping.c index be37565..6d584c2 100644 --- a/src/fping.c +++ b/src/fping.c @@ -2938,7 +2938,7 @@ void usage(int is_error) fprintf(out, " -6, --ipv6 only ping IPv6 addresses\n"); fprintf(out, " -b, --size=BYTES amount of ping data to send, in bytes (default: %d)\n", DEFAULT_PING_DATA_SIZE); fprintf(out, " -B, --backoff=N set exponential backoff factor to N (default: 1.5)\n"); - fprintf(out, " -c, --count=N count mode: send N pings to each target\n"); + fprintf(out, " -c, --count=N count mode: send N pings to each target and report stats\n"); fprintf(out, " -f, --file=FILE read list of targets from a file ( - means stdin)\n"); fprintf(out, " -g, --generate generate target list (only if no -f specified)\n"); fprintf(out, " (give start and end IP in the target list, or a CIDR address)\n"); @@ -2966,7 +2966,7 @@ void usage(int is_error) fprintf(out, "Output options:\n"); fprintf(out, " -a, --alive show targets that are alive\n"); fprintf(out, " -A, --addr show targets by address\n"); - fprintf(out, " -C, --vcount=N same as -c, report results in verbose format\n"); + fprintf(out, " -C, --vcount=N same as -c, report results (not stats) in verbose format\n"); fprintf(out, " -d, --rdns show targets by name (force reverse-DNS lookup)\n"); fprintf(out, " -D, --timestamp print timestamp before each output line\n"); fprintf(out, " -e, --elapsed show elapsed time on return packets\n");