I’m trying to write a simple script to monitor my network status, without all of ping‘s output:
When I ping www.google.com and 8.8.8.8, I get no reply:
What is the -w (deadline) flag in ping for? I cannot find a description of it in the ping man page; only for -W, which takes seconds as a parameter. What is the difference between them, and how can I set a ping timeout (if host is not responding) to 200ms?
I am trying to write a bash script in a file that would, when run start pinging a host until it becomes available, when the host becomes reachable it runs a command and stops executing, I tried writing one but the script continues pinging until the count ends,
Is there a way to tell ping to show its usual termination statistics without stopping the execution?