Hi,
If you you want a quicker execution - you could also run the pings to separate hosts in parallel starting the jobs in background (&) and waiting for them with "wait" after that. You'll have to be more careful about the outputs in that case - e.g. redirect them to separate files.
Regards, Javor
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:57 PM, Laurence Alexander Hurst < L.A.Hurst@lboro.ac.uk> wrote:
Gopinath Achari wrote:
hi,
how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to differentdestinations at execution of single shell scripts
please help me any ideas
regards, Gopinath
Do you mean something like: ping -c10 host1 ping -c10 host2 .... which will ping host1 10 times, then host2 10 times etc. (see `man ping` for details of the options).
If you have a list of hosts in a file, you could do: for host in `cat [filename]` do ping -c10 $host done
or:
while read host do ping -c10 $host done << [filename]
If you only want to ping each host once, you can substitute '-c10' with '-c1' (again, see the man page).
Hope this helps Laurence
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