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Gnarlodious
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 5:24 pm    Post subject: Re: Get Boolean from ping Reply with quote
Entity Chris F.A. Johnson spoke thus:

Quote:
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 at 16:38 GMT, Gnarlodious wrote:
Is there an easy way to get a binary result from the ping command? I want a
zero or a one.

ping <args> >/dev/null && echo 0 || echo 1

(Or do you want something else?)
Nope, that'll do, thanks!



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Chris F.A. Johnson
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:51 pm    Post subject: Re: Get Boolean from ping Reply with quote
On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 at 16:38 GMT, Gnarlodious wrote:
Quote:
Is there an easy way to get a binary result from the ping command? I want a
zero or a one.

ping <args> >/dev/null && echo 0 || echo 1

(Or do you want something else?)

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Gnarlodious
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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2005 3:38 pm    Post subject: Get Boolean from ping Reply with quote
Is there an easy way to get a binary result from the ping command? I want a
zero or a one.

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