Al salaam a'alaykum Pascal

26 Jan 04 22:00, Pascal Schmidt wrote to David Drummond:

 DD>> export result=`ping -c 4 -q ispgate | grep avg | wc -l`
 DD>> if [ $result != 1 ]
 DD>>       ...
 PS> Equivalent (or maybe even better, -c 4 does not exit for me when no 
 PS> replies come, it waits forever for 4 replies to emerge):

 PS> if ! ping -c 4 -w 4 ispgate &> /dev/null; then
 PS>   ...
 PS> fi

 PS> ping exits with 0 exit status when replies come in, or with 1 when no 
 PS> replies come.

There may well be improvements to the script, it was written many years ago
for a much earlier version of Linux. It has continued to work for me to
this day and I've never seen need to update it (other than the ISP).

Regards,
David

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