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Set audible alarm when an IP address comes online

Waiting for your server to finish rebooting? Issue the command above and you will hear a beep when it comes online. The -i 60 flag tells ping to wait for 60 seconds between ping, putting less strain on your system. Vary it to your need. The -a flag tells ping to include an audible bell in the output when a package is received (that is, when your server comes online).
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ping -i 60 -a IP_address

haivu · 2009-03-04 06:21:22 33
Ping scanning without nmap

Usefull for when you don't have nmap and need to find a missing host. Pings all addresses from 10.1.1.1 to 10.1.1.254, modify for your subnet. Timeout set to 1 sec for speed, if running over a slow connection you should raise that to avoid missing replies. This will clean up the junk, leaving just the IP address: for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 10.1.1.$i | grep 'from' | cut -d' ' -f 4 | tr -d ':'; done Show Sample Output
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```
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.622 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.078 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.50: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.204 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.250: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=0.344 ms
```
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for i in {1..254}; do ping -c 1 -W 1 10.1.1.$i | grep 'from'; done

SuperJediWombat · 2010-04-07 16:57:53 8
ping as traceroute

This command uses ping to get the routers' IP addresses to the destination host as traceroute does. If you know what I mean..
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for i in {1..30}; do ping -t $i -c 1 google.com; done | grep "Time to live exceeded"

6bc98f7f · 2012-02-19 13:37:04 9
Check if a machine is online

PING parameters c 1 limits to 1 pinging attempt q makes the command quiet (or silent mode) /dev/null 2>&1 is to remove the display && echo ONLINE is executed if previous command is successful (return value 0) || echo OFFLINE is executed otherwise (return value of 1 if unreachable or 2 if you're offline yourself). I personally use this command as an alias with a predefined machine name but there are at least 2 improvements that may be done. Asking for the machine name or IP Escaping the output so that it displays ONLINE in green and OFFLINE in red (for instance).
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ping -c 1 -q MACHINE_IP_OR_NAME >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo ONLINE || echo OFFLINE

UnixNeko · 2012-02-09 06:30:55 29
Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.

Joker wants an email if the Brand X server is down. Set a cron job for every 5 mins with this line and he gets an email when/if a ping takes longer than 3 seconds. Show Sample Output
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```
An email saying "brandx.jp.sme ping failed"
```
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ping -q -c1 -w3 brandx.jp.sme 2&>1 /dev/null || echo brandx.jp.sme ping failed | mail -ne -s'Server unavailable' joker@jp.co.uk

mccalni · 2009-10-13 14:13:04 19
Alert on Mac when server is up

When run on a mac, this command will bring up a dialog box in the Terminal when server HOSTNAME first responds to a ping.
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ping -o -i 30 HOSTNAME && osascript -e 'tell app "Terminal" to display dialog "Server is up" buttons "It?s about time" default button 1'

neologism · 2009-08-03 16:06:57 4
Set audible alarm when an IP address comes online

I'd rather this one on Gnome, as I'm used to be listening some music while working. I've even created a bash function which receives ADDRESS as parameter.
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until ping -c1 ADDRESS;do true;done;zenity --warning --text "ADDRESS is back"

marcusrp · 2011-09-26 18:51:38 8
Ping all hosts on 192.168.1.0/24

Pings all the hosts on 192.168.1.0/24 in parallel, so it is very fast. Alive host IP addresses are echoed to stdout as pings are responded to. Show Sample Output
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```
192.168.1.5
192.168.1.10
```
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for i in {0..255} ; do (ping 192.168.1.$i -c 1 > /dev/null && echo "192.168.1.$i" & ) ; done

bugmenot · 2014-01-26 18:31:34 14
ping a host until it responds, then play a sound, then exit

Audio acknowledgement for host availability. When running the command from a Linux systems, you can use "festival" or "espeak" instead of "say".
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Mac OSX: ping -oc 30 8.8.4.4 > /dev/null && say "Google name server is up" || say "This host is down"

raulyca · 2014-08-01 15:44:57 6
ping MAC ADDRESS

# first install arp-scan if not have it arp-scan 10.1.1.0/24 .... show ip+mac in localnet awk '/00:1b:11:dc:a9:65/ {print $1}' .... get ip associated with MAC ` backtick make do command substitution passing ip to command ping Show Sample Output
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```
ping -c 2 `arp-scan 10.1.1.0/24 | awk '/00:1b:11:dc:a9:65/ {print $1}'`
PING 10.1.1.1 (10.1.1.1) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.911 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.1.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.827 ms

--- 10.1.1.1 ping statistics ---
2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1000ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.827/0.869/0.911/0.042 ms
```
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ping -c 2 `arp-scan 10.1.1.0/24 | awk '/00:1b:11:dc:a9:65/ {print $1}'`

voyeg3r · 2010-05-11 13:12:43 6
Get IP from hostname

Get the IP of a hostname.
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ping -c 1 google.com | egrep -m1 -o '[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}\.[0-9]{1,3}'

BruceLEET · 2010-10-26 01:11:01 8
Detach a process from the current shell

Continue to execute the command in background even though quitting the shell.
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ping -i1 www.google.com &> /dev/null & disown

strzel_a · 2010-11-09 11:22:57 7

Ping a URL sending output to file and STDOUT

The tee (as in "T" junction) command is very useful for redirecting output to two places. Show Sample Output

ping google.com | tee ping-output.txt

root · 2009-01-29 10:26:59 87

Poor man's nmap for a class C network from rfc1918

What do you do when nmap is not available and you want to see the hosts responding to an icmp echo request ? This one-liner will print all hosts responding with their ipv4 address.
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( nw=192.168.0 ; h=1; while [ $h -lt 255 ] ; do ( ping -c2 -i 0.2 -W 0.5 -n $nw.$h & ); h=$[ $h + 1 ] ; done ) | awk '/^64 bytes.*/ { gsub( ":","" ); print $4 }' | sort -u

masterofdisaster · 2009-06-07 15:14:46 5
Ping sweep without NMAP

Ping sweep without NMAP
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for i in `seq 1 255`; do ping -c 1 10.10.10.$i | tr \\n ' ' | awk '/1 received/ {print $2}'; done

hemanth · 2009-08-22 09:34:27 12
Ping sweep without NMAP

Waits for all pings to complete and returns ip with mac address
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(prefix="10.59.21" && for i in `seq 254`; do (sleep 0.5 && ping -c1 -w1 $prefix.$i &> /dev/null && arp -n | awk ' /'$prefix'.'$i' / { print $1 " " $3 } ') & done; wait)

smoky · 2014-04-02 11:20:57 11
ping a host until it responds, then play a sound, then exit

After this, just type: beepwhenup You need to install "beep" before this would make the beep sound. Save it in your .profile if you want to use it later WARNING: this command won't exit until it is successful. You won't be able to CONTROL+C out of it.
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beepwhenup () { echo 'Enter host you want to ping:'; read PHOST; if [[ "$PHOST" == "" ]]; then exit; fi; while true; do ping -c1 -W2 $PHOST 2>&1 >/dev/null; if [[ "$?" == "0" ]]; then for j in $(seq 1 4); do beep; done; ping -c1 $PHOST; break; fi; done; }

linuxrawkstar · 2009-09-24 18:11:10 7
Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.

Alternative to the ping check if your firewall blocks ping. Uses curl to get the landing page silently, or fail with an error code. You can probably do this with wget as well. Show Sample Output
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```
An email saying "brandx.jp.sme ping failed"
```
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curl -fs brandx.jp.sme 2&>1 > /dev/null || echo brandx.jp.sme ping failed | mail -ne -s'Server unavailable' joker@jp.co.uk

mccalni · 2009-10-23 14:29:06 7
Check a server is up. If it isn't mail me.

For some reason the 2&>1 does not work for me, but the shorter stdout/stderr redirection >& works perfectly (Ubuntu 10.04).
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ping -q -c1 -w3 server.example.com >& /dev/null || echo server.example.com ping failed | mail -ne -s'Server unavailable' admin@example.com

brainstorm · 2010-09-08 12:19:29 5
Detach a process from the current shell

ignore HUP interruptions
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nohup ping -i1 www.google.com &

unixmonkey13930 · 2010-11-10 12:39:44 6
Do one ping to a URL, I use this in a MRTG gauge graph to monitor connectivity
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ping -q -c 1 www.google.com|awk -F/ 'END{print $5}'

unefunge · 2010-12-15 11:01:10 7
Use acpi and notify-send to report current temperature every five minutes.

works best in a shell script run at startup. It will ping localhost once and output to null, after it does that, acpi is called for temperature in fahrenheit and piped through to another loop that feeds notify-send for a tooltip. After waiting five minutes, it will start over. Show Sample Output
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```
Thermal 0: ok, 134.6 degrees F
```
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while ping -c 1 127.0.0.1 > /dev/null; do acpi -t -f | while read tem; do notify-send "$tem"; done; sleep 300; done

c0de · 2011-07-02 06:47:25 9
ping with timestamp
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ping HOSTNAME | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done

sammcj · 2011-09-07 02:03:19 45
Send e-mail if host is 'dead' or not reachable

Cleaner with a mailto assignment in crontab (if the command fails you get an email): MAILTO=admin@example.com 10,30,50 * * * * ping -q -c1 -w3 192.168.0.14 >/dev/null
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10,30,50 * * * * ping -c1 -w3 192.168.0.14 >/dev/null

bashrc · 2012-02-06 14:54:15 4
Text graphing ping output filter

Nasty perl one-liner that provides a sparkline of ping times. If you want a different history than the last 30, just put that value in. It (ab)uses unicode to draw the bars, inspired by https://github.com/joemiller/spark-ping . It's not the most bug-free piece of code, but what it lacks in robustness it makes up for in capability. :) If anyone has any ideas on how to make it more compact or better, I'd love to hear them. I included a ping to google in the command just as an example (and burned up 10 chars doing it!). You should use it with: $ ping example.com | $SPARKLINE_PING_COMMAND Show Sample Output
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```
bgrantham$ ping g.co|perl -ne'$|=/e=(\S+)/||next;(push@_,$1)>30&&shift@_;print"\r",(map{"\xe2\x96".chr(128+7*$_/(sort{$b<=>$a}@_)[0])." "}@_),"$1ms"'
&#9604; &#9606; &#9605; &#9606; &#9605; &#9606; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9604; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; &#9606; &#9605; &#9604; &#9604; &#9606; &#9605; &#9607; &#9605; &#9605; &#9605; 87.458ms^C
bgrantham$
```
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ping g.co|perl -ne'$|=/e=(\S+)/||next;(push@_,$1)>30&&shift@_;print"\r",(map{"\xe2\x96".chr(128+7*$_/(sort{$b<=>$a}@_)[0])." "}@_),"$1ms"'

bartgrantham · 2012-07-06 22:42:06 4
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Quick HTML image gallery

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Run a command as root, with a delay

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Notepad in a browser

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Show a line when a "column" matchs

count of down available ips

Query Wikipedia via console over DNS

Remove a line from a file using sed (useful for updating known SSH server keys when they change)

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Force machine to reboot no matter what (even if /sbin/shutdown is hanging)

This will cause your machine to INSTANTLY reboot. No un-mounting of drives or anything. Very handy when something has gone horribly wrong with your server in that co-location facility miles away with no remote hands! Suspect this works with all 2.2, 2.4 and 2.6 Linux kernels compiled with magic-syskey-request support.

Convert seconds to [DD:][HH:]MM:SS

Converts any number of seconds into days, hours, minutes and seconds. sec2dhms() { declare -i SS="$1" D=$(( SS / 86400 )) H=$(( SS % 86400 / 3600 )) M=$(( SS % 3600 / 60 )) S=$(( SS % 60 )) [ "$D" -gt 0 ] && echo -n "${D}:" [ "$H" -gt 0 ] && printf "%02g:" "$H" printf "%02g:%02g\n" "$M" "$S" }

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