How to ping a server only once from within a batch file?

Question

I want to learn how to write batch scripts and tried to create a script which automatically runs this command in the command line once:

ping www.google.de -t

and displays the ping, so it would look like this:

Reply from XXX.XXX.X.XX: time=30ms
Reply from XXX.XXX.X.XX: time=31ms
Reply from XXX.XXX.X.XX: time=29ms

My problem is, that this will result in this when I execute this command as script:

My problem is that it will not execute the ping command at all, but just insert the command unlimited times in the console window as its shown in the screenshot.

I just created a new file, wrote ping www.google.de -t in it, saved it as ping.bat file and executed it with double clicking on it.

So how to write the batch file to start this command only once and display the ping result?

Answer 1

I am sure you must have named the resultant bat file as "ping.bat". If you rename your file to something else say pingXXX.bat. It will definitely work. Try it out.

my batch file contains below code only

ping 172.31.29.1 -t

with file name as ping.bat

with file name abc.bat

Answer 2

Enter in a command prompt window ping /? and read the short help output after pressing RETURN. Or take a look on:

• ping - latest Microsoft documentation for this Windows command
• ping - Windows XP documentation for this Windows command

Explanation for option -t given by Microsoft:

Specifies ping continue sending echo Request messages to the destination until interrupted. To interrupt and display statistics, press CTRL+ENTER. To interrupt and quit this command, press CTRL+C.

You may want to use:

@%SystemRoot%\system32\ping.exe -n 1 www.google.de

Or to check first if a server is available:

@echo off
set MyServer=Server.MyDomain.de
%SystemRoot%\system32\ping.exe -n 1 %MyServer% >nul
if errorlevel 1 goto NoServer

echo %MyServer% is available.
rem Insert commands here, for example one or more net use to connect network drives.
goto :EOF

:NoServer
echo %MyServer% is not available yet.
pause
goto :EOF

Answer 3

For bash (OSX) ping google.com -c 1 (incase search brought you here)

Answer 4

if you want to use the name "ping.bat", a small trick is to use this code:

@echo off
cd\ 
ping google.com -t

Just add that "cd\" and you are fine... ;)

Answer 5

Not sure exactly what you are trying but your posted code should work just fine. in case you don't want the command to be displayed, add @echo off at starting of your script. If i have the below code in a file named as test.bat and run it command prompt as test.bat it will work just fine.

@echo off
ping www.google.de -t

To address your EDIT: where the main concern is ping command was not recognizable. ping command generally will be located under C:\Windows\System32\ where C:\ being the root directory. In case, the root directory is different you can get the root directory using %SystemRoot% environment variable and can say like

%SystemRoot%\Windows\System32\PING.EXE www.google.de -t

Another way to see if the command you are trying to run is recognizable or not is using WHERE command like below

where ping

If the command is recognizable; it will output the path like

C:\Windows\System32\PING.EXE

Else will result in error

Answer 6

I know why, you are using the file name "ping" and you are using the code "ping", it just keeps trying to run itself because its selected directory in where that file is, if you want it to actually ping, put this before the ping command: "cd C:\Windows\system32", the actual file that pings the server is in there!

Answer 7

From Batch file, ping a ip only once using the following command:
Ping 192.168.199.10 -n 1

Answer 8

i used Mofi sample, and change some parameters, no you can do -t

@%SystemRoot%\system32\ping.exe -n -1 4.2.2.4

Answer 9

The only thing you need to think about in this case is, in which directory you are on your computer. Your command line window shows C:\users\rei0d\desktop\ as your current directory.

So the only thing you really need to do is:
Remove the desktop by "going up" with the command cd ...

So the complete command would be:

cd ..
ping XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX -t

Answer 10

Having 2 scripts called test.bat and ping.bat in same folder:

Script test.bat contains one line:

ping google.com

Script ping.bat contains below lines:

@echo off
echo Hello!
pause

Executing "test.bat" the result on CMD will be:

Hello!
Press any key to continue . . .

Why? Because "test.bat" is calling the "ping.bat" ("ping google.com" is interpreted as calling the "ping.bat" script). Same is happening if script "ping.bat" contains "ping google.com". The script will execute himself in a loop.

Easy ways to avoid this:

1. Do not name your script "ping.bat".
2. You can name the script as "ping.bat" but inside the script use "ping.exe google.com" instead of "ping google.com".

Answer 11

Create a text file with text "@%SystemRoot%\system32\ping.exe -t www.google.com" and save it with extension ".bat". Just click and run it and you will get the result.

So basically what happens is that we run ping.exe application with parameters '-t' and 'www.google.com' (web-address).

Answer 12

The answer to your question is this

Ping -n 1 0.0.0.0

But if you want it to be faster than this, this will be your answer

Ping -n 1 -l 1 0.0.0.0

Note: Replace 0.0.0.0 with your desired IP address

Answer 13

Create a "ping google.bat" file with the following text:

PING.EXE -t -l 666 google.com

"-t" means continuous

"-l 666" means bigger packets (666 bytes each)

Answer 14

Just write the command "ping your server IP" without the double quote. save file name as filename.bat and then run the batch file as administrator