Friday, January 5, 2018

# bash script ping ip script # bash script ping multiple ip

Linux: Script to test IPs

So today I was sitting free, and the sysadmin gave me a list of IPs to ping. Being the lazy person I am, I decided to look online for ready-made scripts to ping IPs and list out the results pingable (UP) unpingable (DOWN)

The first search result had a lot of samples to work with and I picked the best:

Of course the sysadmin helped me tweak the script:



Bear in mind that an IP is not pingable, it may take several seconds before the script moves on to the next IP, so the script in general may time some time to run and output its results, so if you are testing a 100 IPs, just pipe the results to a file on the system and run the job in the background so you can check the results when you are free later.

I am not cruel, here is the script for you to copy paste it and run on your Linux (tested on RHEL)

#! /bin/bash

for ip in XXX.XXX.XXX.{XXX..XXX}; do  # for loop and the {} operator
    ping -c 1 $ip > /dev/null 2> /dev/null  # ping and discard output
    if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then  # check the exit code
        echo "${ip} is up" # display the output
        # you could send this to a log file by using the >>pinglog.txt redirect
    else
        echo "${ip} is down"
    fi
done

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