scripting with sed and wget in Windows

Question

I have some issue with Internet connectivity in a LAN. Some users are happy and some complain about the Internet speed. So I came with an idea to install software on three different PCs and try to download/upload a file at the same time and record the speed. Then I will able to create a graph with the data that I acquired.

I am looking for a way to download several files and check the speed. I found How to grep download speed from wget output? for wget and sed. How do I use wget -O /dev/null http://example.com/index.html 2>&1 | sed -e 's|^.*($[0-9.]\+ [KM]B/s$).*$|\1|' for Windows? I already installed wget and sed on Windows.

All PCs running Windows XP or 7.

Why not use [Cygwin](http://www.cygwin.com/)? – Mike Pennington Apr 24 '12 at 18:57 — Mike Pennington, Apr 24 '12 at 18:57
did you try `tracert` from the 3 separate PCs? Good luck. – shellter Apr 25 '12 at 19:10 — shellter, Apr 25 '12 at 19:10

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '12 at 19:40

Sed isn't different on Windows. The only difference is, that /dev/null doesn't exist on Windows, but NUL.

So:

wget -O NUL http://example.com/index.html 2>&1 | sed -e 's|^.*(\([0-9.]\+ [KM]B/s\)).*$|\1|'

should work on Windows. I'm not 100% sure about 2>&1 - maybe there is some other syntax to use.

scripting with sed and wget in Windows

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