i would like to ask for some help with the output of tracert in windows, ie i have this output :
Tracing route to Y.Y.Y.Y over a maximum of 30 hops
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms X.X.X.X
2 103 ms 71 ms 22 ms X.X.X.X
3 35 ms 51 ms 35 ms X.X.X.X
....
and i would like to produce a file that contains only the X.X.X.X or as an intermediate step to get there, only the lines of tracer that actually contain IPs. Ie :
X.X.X.X
X.X.X.X
X.X.X.X
I ve tried this through a batch file :
for /f "tokens=8" %%a in ('tracert -4 -d 8.8.8.8^|find "ms"') do (
@echo %%a >D:\panagos\desktop\ips.txt
)
but instead of the desired output i get only :
Y.Y.Y.Y
I ve also tried calling on binaries from cygwin to do this, ie :
D:\path\to\slash\bin\awk '{ print $8 }' filein > fileout
but that doesnt work either. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance.
Use the following batch file:
GetIPs.cmd:
@echo off
rem skip 2 header lines
rem ip address is the 8th token
for /f "skip=2 tokens=8" %%d in ('tracert -4 -d 8.8.8.8') do (
echo %%d
)>>ips.txt
endlocal
Example:
F:\test>tracert -4 -d 8.8.8.8
Tracing route to 8.8.8.8 over a maximum of 30 hops
1 <1 ms <1 ms <1 ms 192.168.42.129
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 53 ms 48 ms 48 ms 10.248.29.129
4 46 ms 48 ms 48 ms 10.247.82.25
5 55 ms 48 ms 48 ms 10.247.82.6
6 55 ms 48 ms 48 ms 10.247.82.9
7 46 ms 48 ms 48 ms 10.247.82.18
8 55 ms 48 ms 48 ms 87.237.20.236
9 56 ms 59 ms 48 ms 87.237.20.85
10 56 ms 58 ms 47 ms 74.125.52.216
11 55 ms 48 ms 51 ms 216.239.41.179
12 58 ms 48 ms 59 ms 216.239.57.83
13 58 ms 59 ms 48 ms 8.8.8.8
Trace complete.
F:\test>GetIPs
F:\test>type ips.txt
192.168.42.129
10.248.29.129
10.247.82.25
10.247.82.6
10.247.82.9
10.247.82.18
87.237.20.236
87.237.20.85
74.125.52.216
216.239.41.179
216.239.57.83
8.8.8.8
Further Reading
- An A-Z Index of the Windows CMD command line - An excellent reference for all things Windows cmd line related.
- for /f - Loop command against the results of another command.
- redirection - Redirection operators.
Read Redirection:
command > filename Redirect command output to a file
command >> filename APPEND into a file
Use either
type NUL >D:\panagos\desktop\ips.txt
for /f "tokens=8" %%a in ('tracert -4 -d 8.8.8.8^|find "ms"') do (
@echo %%a >>D:\panagos\desktop\ips.txt
)
or (better)
@echo OFF
>D:\panagos\desktop\ips.txt (
for /f "tokens=8" %%a in ('tracert -4 -d 8.8.8.8^|find "ms"') do (
echo %%a
)
)
Also note that your script hides unreachable hosts, see that 12th hop in next example has only 7 tokens:
==> tracert -d 8.8.8.8
Tracing route to 8.8.8.8 over a maximum of 30 hops
…
11 36 ms 44 ms 36 ms 108.170.234.149
12 * * * Request timed out.
13 36 ms 36 ms 35 ms 8.8.8.8
Trace complete.