topic Re: Alternative Ping Program Help. in Operating System - HP-UX

Alternative Ping Program Help.

Backd00redPr0xy — Sat, 13 Aug 2016 08:06:32 GMT

Ok so basically I need help making a program in batch that will have the results like this

Enter IP Here: ipputhere

and then will go on to ping -t ip

so basically just to make it look neater/nicer is what im looking for. Can anyone help me?

Re: Alternative Ping Program Help.

Steven Schweda — Sun, 14 Aug 2016 01:08:51 GMT

> [...] a program in batch [...]

Define "a program in batch"? Are you trying to write a shell script?
If so, how much don't you know about writing a shell script?

> Enter IP Here: ipputhere

In "batch" mode, who will be (interactively?) providing the IP
address?

> so basically just to make it look neater/nicer is what im looking for.

Define "neater/nicer"? Do you want something different to happen in
the case when "ping" fails, compared to what happens when "ping"
succeeds? (What, exactly?)

> Can anyone help me?

Lacking a clear description of what you want, I can't.

Re: Alternative Ping Program Help.

Torsten. — Mon, 15 Aug 2016 06:23:15 GMT

Not sure what you want to do.

Something like fping or pathping?

Re: Alternative Ping Program Help.

donna hofmeister — Tue, 16 Aug 2016 14:46:01 GMT

i have to agree with everyone else -- you're not explaining yourself well.

it's very rare for a real batch script to expect human input. It is, however, quite common in "regular" (not batch) scripts.

if you're wondering how to do user input -- check this writing shell scripts page.

this page even goes further!

i know the above examples are for linux....but it seem that it will be a worthwhile excerise for you to adapt them to hpux.

Re: Alternative Ping Program Help.

Laurent Menase — Fri, 19 Aug 2016 10:10:38 GMT

Also what do you mean by 'ping -t IP' ?

Do you mean like -t windows option or -t linux option?

Give an explicit example of what you want.

the equv to XP ping -t is ping with no option

-t is for ttl option

or do you look for something like

#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo what ip?
read ip
ping $ip -n 1 -m 1

#!/usr/bin/ksh
echo what ip?
read ip
ping $ip -n 1 -m 1 -n 1 -m 1 >/dev/null && echo there || echo nothere