Bash loop ping successful

Question

I'm thinking that this needs to be changed to a while clause, at the moment it'll wait till all 10000 pings are done, I need it to return when the ping is successful. The program "say" is on OSX it makes the computer speak.

#!/bin/bash
echo begin ping
if ping -c 100000 8.8.8.8 | grep timeout;
then echo `say timeout`;
else echo `say the internet is back up`;
fi

OK I don't have rights to answer my own question so here's my answer for it after playing around:

Thanks, yeah I didn't know about $? until now. Anyway now I've gone and made this. I like that yours doesn't go forever but in my situation I didn't need it to stop until it's finished.

#!/bin/bash
intertube=0
echo "begin ping"
while [ $intertube -ne 1 ]; do
        ping -c 3 google.com
        if [ $? -eq  0 ]; then
                echo "ping success";
                say success
                intertube=1;
        else
                echo "fail ping"
        fi
done
echo "fin script"

Answer 1

This can also be done with a timeout:

# Ping until timeout or 1 successful packet
ping -w (timeout) -c 1