Hi all,

I am trying to get this to work in a script:

result= `ping -c 1 172.16.0.6 | grep -e 100\%`

this works fine with bash-2.05b-12mdk, but craps out with bash-2.05-16mdk. Is this a known issue? has anyone else encountered the same? Any thoughts or tips would be appreciated.

TIA

JJ

Sorry, forgot to mention that the part it seems to have problems with is the -c 1. This is where I get the error when running from my script.
It works fine from the command line but not when called from the scipt.

a little more information:

The command runs from the command line in that shell, on that computer, but not from the script. both are using the same kernel (2.4.21), one is mandrake 9.1(it works on this one) the other is mandrake 8.2 (doesnt work on this one).

The error:

./set_time : 1: command not found

The script:

#ping to see if connection to server exists. Looks for 100% packet loss.
result= `ping -c 1 172.16.0.6 | grep -e 100\%`

#if result is blank ping was good (there is a connection to the server)
if [ test $result != '' ]
then
#syncs time with relication server in yellowknife and then syncs the system and hardware clocks
/usr/bin/rdate -s replication.arcticco-op.com
/sbin/clock -w
echo `date` time sync successful. >> set_time.log
else
#if there is no connection to the server, this appends a line to the log with time and date.
echo `date` time sync was unsuccessful, no connection to server >> set_time.log
exit;
fi

Don't use a space between -c and 1, i.e:

result=`ping -c1 172.16.0.6 | grep -e 100\%`

hw

You might want to check out fping. It's easier to use in scripts than ping.

HW,

Perfect, that got me past the ping problem, but now I am getting an error with my test that says I have too many arguments.

Here is the error:

./set_time: [: too many arguments

I think it all looks okay. I cant seem to get this going.


JJ

Thanks for the help with this problem, I made a couple changes, and it now works just fine.

I changed the grep -e to grep -c and added double quotes to the test as follows

if ( test "result" != "1" )

this script is now working and I appreciate your time!


JJ

Glad you got it working!

hw