How to get only the reply line of a ping test on W

Question

Usually, when pinging a server IP address we have this in return:

Pinging <IP address> with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121

Ping statistics for <IP address>:
packets: sent = 4, Received = 4, lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-secounds:
Minimum = 151ms, Maximum = 151 ms, Average = 151 ms

How do I get only the following line (only the reply line of one ping test) in return by a simple command in cmd.exe on Windows (whatever Windows language used)?

Reply from <IP address> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121

Maybe the simplest way is to display only the second line? How should this be done? Because I don't know how to do it on Windows.

Answer 1

This may work more universally.

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP> | FIND "TTL="

Answer 2

You can accomplish this with powershell... here is the code you can add to a script

$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$reply = $ping.send('127.0.0.1')
if ($reply.status -eq "Success"){
    [string]::Format("Reply from {0},time={1}",$reply.Address.ToString(),$reply.RoundtripTime)
    }else{
    $z = [system.net.dns]::gethostaddresses($hostname)[0].ipaddresstostring
    [string]::Format("FAIL,{0},{1}",$z,"***")
}

You can format the string in any format you want.

Answer 3

Based on @wmz answer,

(for /f "skip=3 tokens=*" %F in ('ping -n 1 <hostname/IP>') do @if not defined _A @echo %F&set _A=0) &set "_A="

is ok as a one-liner not language dependent.
It will also give the result when no response is given (Timeout), where find and findstr will not.

Answer 4

Well,

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP>

Will send only 1 ping request. And you should be able to find the reply line using none other than the FIND command.

So, something like this:

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP> | FIND "Reply"

UPDATE

I know the above works on an English, Windows 7 machine. I would assume that it would work for other localizations, but this may be an incorrect assumption.

UPDATE 2

This question seems to provide some insight. You may have to write the output of ping to a file (using the > output redirection pipe) and then use the commands in the answers to get only the second line.

Answer 5

It's pretty simple from within batch, but from command line... ugly is major understatement:

(for /f "skip=1 delims=" %F in ('ping -n 1 localhost') do @if not defined _A @echo %F&set _A=0) &set "_A="

But it does the trick, prints second line (whatever it will happen to contain) and skips the rest. You may change line it prints changing skip=.

If you have powershell available, you could simply do: (yes I know it's not how pinging is supposed to be done in PS): powershell "ping -n 1 localhost | select -index 2". You may need to play with index, as on my (XP) laptop ping inserts addtional CR in each line, which has an effect of double - spacing output from PS.

Answer 6

You can combine findstr command with the skip lines option of for:

C:\>ping 127.0.0.1 | for /f "skip=3 tokens=*" %a in ('findstr Reply') do @echo %a

Output is:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Change %a to %%a if writing a batch file.