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I need to display the most recent 5 pings each second continuously, as in the following example:
1st second Ping 1 - 5
2nd second Ping 2 - 6
3rd second Ping 3 - 7
.... and so on
I've written the following script to:
1) ping continuously to a specific address
2) format the output
I believe I need to make use of the Hold Buffer functionality of "sed" to buffer the latest 5 ping samples (FIFO - push the oldest sample out when a new sample is pushed in), and the print out the buffer. However, I'm not sure how to do this. Any ideas? Thanks.
#!/bin/sh
ping -s 172.16.114.210 | sed '
/icmp_seq=0/ {
s/ from /,/
s/: icmp.*time=/,/
s/PING.*data bytes//
}
/icmp_seq=0/ !{
s/ from /,/
s/: icmp.*time=/,/
s/PING.*data bytes//
}'
Thanks. Just tried it but it gave the following, and kept adding a new line until I press Ctrl C.
./ping_CASE_STBY.sh
1 2 3 4 5
2 3 4 5
3 4 5
4 5
5
I think "ping -c 1 localhost" is just to ping local host once. But this command doesn't quite work on my UNIX because no matter what number I specified, it only ping once. In addition, it only states it's alive without the latency info.
bash-3.00$ ping -c 1 localhost
localhost is alive
bash-3.00$ ping -c 2 localhost
localhost is alive
bash-3.00$
Not quite sure what the rest of the lines are for. Can you explain the following:
PING="${PING%%\ }"
PINGS="${PINGS#* } $PING"
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