Change Log

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file.

[2.6.2] - 2017-08-18

Added

• ship -e now can handle more than one domain.
  • e.g. ship -e github.com google.com facebook.com

Changed

• Fixed an issue displaying weird output when parsing HTML.
  • e.g. ship -u github.com google.com facebook.com
• Minor changes on code.
• Refactored README.md.
• Refactored GUIDE.md.

[2.6.1] - 2017-07-22

Added

• Official website.

Changed

• Refactored README.md.
• Minor changes on code.

[2.6] - 2017-06-15

Added

• Message to show that the ipv6 module is not loaded.
  • This can be suppressed by piping tail -n+2
• Feature to show all network interfaces.
• Fixed wrong color output on version message.

Changed

• Fixed wrong outputs of IPv6 addresses.
• Fixed wrong way to check IPv6 availability.
• Fixed issues with temporary files and background jobs.
• Logo on version output.
• MAC and IPv6 addresses are now printed in lower case for better readability.
• Refactored code a bit.

[2.5] - 2017-03-07

Added

• IP calculation feature can now show information without binary (optional).
• IP calculation feature can now be shown in HTML5 format (optional).

Changed

• Fixed ss output.
• Fixed IP address outputs on different distributions.
• Fixed awk outputs on Kali Linux.
• Fixed ip calculation feature for older bash versions.
• Minor code clean up.
• Minor code improvements.
• Checking functions for IPv6 compatibility and bash version validation.

Removed

• Warnings with shellcheck.

[2.4] - 2017-02-17

Added

• Converting functions (Binary to Decimal, Binary to Hexadecimal, Decimal to Binary) to be used in other functions.
• “Show network, broadcast address, netmask, CIDR, Cisco wildcard, class, host range, maximum hosts from given IP address”.
• Seriously why need to install ipcalc sipcalc, when you can do this with pure Bash?
• Show a list of private and reserved IP addresses (IPv4 and IPv6) with or without CIDR notation (Bogon IPs).
• More sources to grab user’s public IP.
  • Randomly choose from 6 different web sources to grab the IP.

Changed

• Fixed wrong output of active connection/s based on port.
• Fixed “Show neighbor cache” feature.
• Fixed file/s and online document/s sorting methods and output.
• “Usage” output.
• “Show version” output.
• Beautified README.

[2.3] - 2017-01-27

Added

• Functionality to pass multiple arguments at the same time.
• ship -f file1 file2 fileN or drag and drop each file.
• ship -u url1 url2 urlN.
• set -o xtrace for debugging.
• trap for cleaning temp files.

Changed

• Fixed issues when ‘pinging’ the host from complex URL (stream edit).
• Fixed issues when ‘pinging’ a network host who does not accept ICMP packets.
• Fixed issues when ‘pinging’ an invalid network host.
• Fixed weird behavior when showing wireless driver used.
• Fixed wrong IPv6 checking.
• Timeout values to match slow connections.
• Speed and performance improvements.
• Code improvements.
• Shebang for better portability.
• Commands’ parameters to long ones for better readability.
• Static references to dynamic ones (e.g. script’s name).
• Avoid piping grep to awk.
• Variable groups to arrays.
• Concatenation methods.
• README.

Removed

• Errors and warnings using shellcheck.
• Unused functions.

[2.2] - 2017-01-14

Added

• Driver info on ship --all and ship --cidr-a.

Changed

• Fixed ship --external.
• Replaced printf with echo on some options for better quality and external use.
• Usage for better readability.
• README.

[2.1] - 2017-01-11

Changed

• Code flow a bit.
• Issue template .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md.
• Fixed #26.
• Compressed head.png for less usage.
• README.

[2.0] - 2017-01-03

Added

• Created issue template .github/ISSUE_TEMPLATE.md (thanks v1s1t0r1sh3r3 for the tip).
• Created pull request template .github/PULL_REQUEST_TEMPLATE.md.

Changed

• Usage.
• Simplified everything.
• Smoother code flow.
• Many features of ship like location, avg RTT, bandwidth can be found on old branch.
• Fixed weird permissions’ bug while creating-deleting /tmp/ship files.
• Fixed different issues while searching for network addresses in a file or a website.

Removed

• Spinner on long running tasks.
• Tools: kill bc ping6.
• Many of ship actions:
  • shows connection bandwidth to different locations.
  • shows results of scans for malicious activities of {URL}.

  • shows location info of {USER

    DOMAIN}.

  • shows the download and upload speed in kB/s.

  • shows the average RTT to {IPV4

    DOMAIN}.

  • shows the average RTT to {IPV6

    DOMAIN}.

[1.9] - 2016-11-20

Added

• Spinner on long running tasks (requires kill from util-linux).
• More tested Arch Linux versions.

Changed

• README.md.
• Minor code improvements.
• Shortened timeout to 20sec while checking with wget --spider.
• Fixed file permissions.

[1.8] - 2016-11-14

Added

• Find valid IPv4, IPv6 and MAC addresses from a URL ship -U <URL> or ship --url <URL>.
• Find valid IPv4, IPv6 and MAC addresses from a file ship -f <file> or ship --find <file>.
• Comments to explain logic on complicated statements.

Changed

• Usage.
• Cleaning on exit function.
• Some strings.
• Appearance of ship -S or ship --speed.
• Minimum bash requirement from 4.0 to 3.2.
• Minor code improvements e.g. sort -V | uniq to sort -Vu.

Removed

• Ugly dialogs and the space on start of each line.
• Root permission for scanning alive hosts with MAC ship -HM or ship --hosts-mac.
• Tools: arping, pr.

[1.7] - 2016-10-29

Added

• Method to print the driver used of each active network interface: ship -d , ship --driver.
• Timeout while getting http code, in wget commands.
• Extract IPv4 and IPv6 addresses from a file.
• Bash version checking function.
• INT and SIGTSTP trapping (exit confirmation).

Changed

• Code is now completely clean. Using shellcheck tool.
• Code improvements.
• Method to store active network interfaces into arrays.
• Some dialogs on bandwidth testing functions.

[1.6] - 2016-10-25

Added

• More locations to test bandwidth.
• Monitor download and upload speed of online network interface.
• Increased performance by handling background tasks properly.
• Show results of scans for malicious activities of a domain.
• Show internet connection bandwidth to CDN and different locations.
• Show the path to a network host (IPv4 or IPv6).

Changed

• README.
• Usage.
• Some dialogs.
• Uppercase MAC and IPv6 addresses.
• ship -F {DOMAIN|IP} now shows multiple IPs (maximum 15).
• Fixed issue #17.
• Fixed when ship -L or ship -F input had a lot of suffixes with slashes, it showed user’s info.
• Fixed some issues when IPv6 is used.

Removed

• Tools: lsmod now using cat /proc/modules.

[1.5] - 2016-10-09

Added

• Function to handle sleeping time (depends on number of CPU cores).

Changed

• Usage.
• Dialogs.
• Increase performance.
• Method to find active hosts on network. Multithreaded ping arping.
• Method to find external IP or location.
• Regex to extract IPv4 and MAC address in some functions.
• Fixed Ubuntu cannot grab info with ip.
• Fixed Ubuntu cannot parse domain to find location info.
• Fixed Kali prints other info with arping.

Removed

• Tools: nmap netstat netcat.

[1.4] - 2016-10-07

Added

• Show ARP cache.
• Show location info of a domain. Map location image provided.

Changed

• Usage.
• gawk to awk
• Method for grabbing IPv4 address of user, domain. Now using netcat.
• Fixed some user input ‘bugs’.
• Fixed regex for domain and IP validation.
• Order of commands in functions.
• Execution speed increased by a little.
• Checking methods.
• Dialogs and messages.
• Position of functions based on usage for better readability.

[1.3] - 2016-10-05

Added

• Get the local IPv6 directly.
• Get full location info of a domain or IP in same command.
• Get the quantity of connections to a port per IP with netstat.

Changed

• Usage.
• Get external IPv4 and resolve domain’s IPv4 in same command.
• Code is cleaner and more user-friendly.

[1.2] - 2016-10-04

Added

• Get the IP address from a domain.
• Get the local IP address directly.
• New dialogs.
• Some functions for better flow.
• Comments.

Changed

• Usage.
• Method to check connectivity (local or network).
• Source to ping.
• Parameter passing.
• Clean up code.

Removed

• Tools: curl route.

[1.1] - 2016-10-01

Added

• Display script’s version.
• Display of default gateway of online interfaces.
• Host discovery (two methods).

Changed

• Usage.
• Renamed some things.
• Fixed some quotes and brackets.

[1.0] - 2016-09-29

Added

• Display of active interfaces.
• Display of IPv4, IPv6 and MAC addresses of active interfaces with or without CIDR.
• Display of public IP.
• Measure the response time from google.com.