Ping bat file

[seth001]

Hallo,

I want to make a bat file that performs a ping action.
If the result is request time out than the bat file time.bat has to be activated. The time.bat enters the time that the ping action has failed.
EXAMPLE of ping.bat:
:start
ping www.google.nl -n 20 
(After this I don’t now what to do?)
CALL time.bat
GOTO start

EXAMPLE of time.bat:
echo.|TIME >> C:\ping\Data.txt (the time will be enter in the text file Data.txt

Can somebody help me with a function that will activate the time.bat only when there is a request time out?

[Dias de verano]

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:start
ping www.whatever.com - n 20 | find "Request timed out." && (
        call time.bat
        )
goto start


[jrebazap]

Hi there

Try this code:

@echo off
:start
ping www.google.nl -n 20 |findstr ms$
if not errorlevel 1 goto start
echo %date% %time% >> ping_log.txt
goto start

The last part of line 3 (|findstr ms$) is just to stop getting the whole response in the screen if you run the batch in DOS. You'll get only the very last line of the summary after the 20 pings.

In line 5 an alternative to record date and time to a log file, only if ping fails with timeout. If ping does not fail line 4 will go to :start .

Good luck

[seth001]

The error I get is, when the bat file starts I only see ping
www.whatever.com - n 20 | find "Request timed out." && (call time.bat). That line get repeated  the whole time? So in steed that the ping action is activated only the line is repeated  ?

[Dias de verano]

The error I get is, when the bat file starts I only see ping
www.whatever.com - n 20 | find "Request timed out." && (call time.bat). That line get repeated  the whole time? So in steed that the ping action is activated only the line is repeated  ?

Please post the code you are using.

[seth001]

I have created a bat file named test.
Test.bat contains :

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:start
ping www.whatever.com - n 20 | find "Request timed out." && (call time.bat)
goto start

Time.bat contains :

Code: [Select]

echo %date% %time% >> c:\ping\time.txt

But the problem is that test.bat doesn’t go further than the line ping www.whatever.com - n 20 | find "Request timed out." && (call time.bat), so the ping function never gets activated.
When I do the same line ( ping www.whatever.com - n 20 | find "Request timed out." && (call time.bat) ) in RUN, CMD the ping session starts and writes the date and time of the request time out message.

[Dias de verano]

Code: [Select]

:start
ping www.whatever.com - n 20 | find "Request timed out." && (call time.bat)
goto start
I just tried this code in a batch using www.bbc.co.uk (which does not service ping requests) and it tried to ping 20 times then called time.bat then started all over again. It's doing it right now.

[update]

10 minutes later, it's still doing it.

I actually intended www.whatever.com to be a placeholder for whatever host you really wanted to use, but I just discovered it actually exists and also does not service ping requests.

[Dias de verano]

Does your silence mean you found your mistake?

[seth001]

Sorry for not responding right away, no I didn’t find the problem I was away from my desk. But seeing it worked for you, why can agree on the code works and that I mistyped something. I will look for the problem tomorrow and post it if I find it. Thank your very much for your time and help!

[Dias de verano]

Alternative code. Change the 1 to however many attempts you want to try each time.

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@echo off
:loop
ping www.whatever.com -n 1
if %errorlevel% GTR 0 call time.bat
goto loop
PS it is considered bad practice to name a batch file the same as a command (time).

[gh0std0g74]

Does your silence mean you found your mistake?

you sound like those guys that post a question and couldn't wait for an answer to return and keep asking who's gonna help him.

[seth001]

I activated the bat file again today still no success. After that I created a new folder and put both bat file there (the last folder there were 9 different bat files). I run it again this time with success!

[Dias de verano]

the last folder there were 9 different bat files

Was one of them called ping.bat?

[seth001]

No, but every time I changed the content of the bat file I didn’t see the change (example I changed the Ip address in 127.0.0.1 but it still goes to www.whatever.com)
Than I created a new folder and moved the bat file there. After the changes of folders, the bat file works.

[Dias de verano]

maybe you were saving your changed .bat to a different folder.