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    Ping is so mean 🥺 (lemmy.dbzer0.com)
    submitted 8 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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    [–] [email protected] 42 points 8 months ago (1 children)

    Wow, that is an unhelpful error message. It could have told you it was expecting a number. It turns out that -i is short for "interval" and expects a number, whereas -I is used to specify an interface.

    [–] [email protected] 15 points 8 months ago

    This exactly. And because this is open-source, its super easy to track this down. I searched for the source of the error message:

    https://github.com/iputils/iputils/blob/3400f3a740942064a545f02aabcf68e234733297/ping/ping.c#L237

    see this is ping_strtod function - so search for that function name and the first hit is the '-i' case:

    		case 'i':
		{
			double optval;

			optval = ping_strtod(optarg, _("bad timing interval"));
			if (isless(optval, 0) || isgreater(optval, (double)INT_MAX / 1000))
				error(2, 0, _("bad timing interval: %s"), optarg);
			rts.interval = (int)(optval * 1000);
			rts.opt_interval = 1;
		}
			break;