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date: “2017-03-07” draft: false title: “ping” tag: [“cli”, “commands”] category: “unix”


Summary - ping

OS Default Available Online Man
Linux Y
Solaris Y
BSD Y
MacOS Y
Basics Command
Version ping -V
Usage info ping -h
Man man ping

Usage - ping

send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to network hosts

Examples

ping OS description
ping 192.168.1.1 Unix send ICMP ECHO_REQUEST to 192.168.1.1
ping -c 1 192.168.1.1 Unix only send 1 ping

Ping sweep a subnet

for i in `seq 1 255`; do (ping -c 1 10.11.1.$i | tr \\n ' ' | awk '/1 received/ {print $2}' &); done