Re: pipe to ping

[Michael R. Jinks]

rpjday wrote:
> 
> On Fri, 22 Dec 2000, David Brett wrote:
> 
> > I am trying to pipe to ping without success.
> >
> > awk '{print$1} testfiles | ping -nc 1


I don't think this syntax is right.  Try (in bash):

for foo in `awk '{print $1}' testfile`; do ping -nc 1 $foo; done

[in case your mailer doesn't print them correctly, the symbols before
awk and after testfile are backquotes.]

ping expects its host names to be command line arguments, not standard
input..


-- 
Michael Jinks, IB // Technical Entity // Saecos Corporation
"No one speaks English and everything's broken."  -- T. Waits
"Tom Waits would have made a decent sysadmin."  -- M. Jinks



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