Re: [CentOS] Shell script - ping

Gopinath Achari wrote:

hi,

how to write a scripts which launches 10 pings to different

destinations 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