How do I timestamp every ping result

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Ping returns this by default   64 bytes from 203 173 50 132  icmp seq 0 ttl 244 time 57 746 ms   Is there some way I can get it to add the timestamp   For example   Mon 21 May 2012 15 15 37 EST   64 bytes from 203 173 50 132  icmp seq 0 ttl 244 time 57 746 ms   I m on OS nbsp X nbsp v10 7  Lion  which seems to have some BSD version of ping

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You did not specify any time stamp or interval for how long you would require such output  so I considered it to be an infinite loop  You can change it accordingly as per your need   while true do    echo -e   date   ping -n -c 1  lt IP TO PING gt  grep  bytes from       sleep 2 done

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You can create a function in your    bashrc file  so you get a ping command ping-t on your console   function ping-t   ping   1    while read pong  do echo    date    pong   done      Now you can call this on the console   ping-t example com      Sa 31  M  r 12 58 31 CEST 2018  PING example com  93 184 216 34  56 84  bytes of data    Sa 31  M  r 12 58 31 CEST 2018  64 bytes from 93 184 216 34  93 184 216 34   icmp seq 1 ttl 48 time 208 ms   Sa 31  M  r 12 58 32 CEST 2018  64 bytes from 93 184 216 34  93 184 216 34   icmp seq 2 ttl 48 time 233 ms

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I also need this to monitor the network issue for my database mirroring time out issue  I use the command code as below   ping -t Google com cmd  q  v  c   pause amp pause  gt nul  amp  for  l  a in    do  set  p  data    amp  amp  echo  date   time   data   amp ping -n 2 Google com gt nul   gt C  pingtest txt   You just need to modify Google com to your server name  It works perfectly for me  and remember to stop this when you finished  The pingtest txt file will increase by 1 KB per second  around    Thank for raymond cc  https   www raymond cc blog timestamp-ping-with-hrping

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Try this   ping www google com   while read endlooop  do echo    date    endlooop   done   It returns something like   Wednesday 18 January  09 29 20 AEDT 2017  PING www google com  216 58 199 36  56 84  bytes of data  Wednesday 18 January  09 29 20 AEDT 2017  64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36 1e100 net  216 58 199 36   icmp seq 1 ttl 57 time 2 86 ms Wednesday 18 January  09 29 21 AEDT 2017  64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36 1e100 net  216 58 199 36   icmp seq 2 ttl 57 time 2 64 ms Wednesday 18 January  09 29 22 AEDT 2017  64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36 1e100 net  216 58 199 36   icmp seq 3 ttl 57 time 2 76 ms Wednesday 18 January  09 29 23 AEDT 2017  64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36 1e100 net  216 58 199 36   icmp seq 4 ttl 57 time 1 87 ms Wednesday 18 January  09 29 24 AEDT 2017  64 bytes from syd09s12-in-f36 1e100 net  216 58 199 36   icmp seq 5 ttl 57 time 2 45 ms

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just use sed  ping google com sed -r  quot s        date   1 g quot

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From man ping      -D     Print timestamp  unix time   microseconds as in gettimeofday  before each line    It will produce something like this    1337577886 346622  64 bytes from 4 2 2 2  icmp req 1 ttl 243 time 47 1 ms   Then timestamp could be parsed out from the ping response and converted to the required format with date

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I could not redirect the Perl based solution to a file for some reason so I kept searching and found a bash only way to do this   ping www google fr   while read pong  do echo    date    pong   done  Wed Jun 26 13 09 23 CEST 2013  PING www google fr  173 194 40 56  56 84  bytes of data  Wed Jun 26 13 09 23 CEST 2013  64 bytes from zrh04s05-in-f24 1e100 net  173 194 40 56   icmp req 1 ttl 57 time 7 26 ms Wed Jun 26 13 09 24 CEST 2013  64 bytes from zrh04s05-in-f24 1e100 net  173 194 40 56   icmp req 2 ttl 57 time 8 14 ms   The credit goes to https   askubuntu com a 137246

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If your AWK doesn t have strftime     ping host   perl -nle  print scalar localtime              To redirect it to a file  use standard shell redirection and turn off output buffering   ping host   perl -nle  BEGIN        print scalar localtime             gt  outputfile   If you want ISO8601 format for the timestamp   ping host   perl -nle  use Time  Piece  BEGIN        print localtime- gt datetime            gt  outputfile

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The simpler option is just using ts 1  from moreutils  fairly standard on most distros     ping 1 1 1 1   ts   Feb 13 12 49 17 PING 1 1 1 1  1 1 1 1  56 84  bytes of data   Feb 13 12 49 17 64 bytes from 1 1 1 1  icmp seq 1 ttl 57 time 5 92 ms Feb 13 12 49 18 64 bytes from 1 1 1 1  icmp seq 2 ttl 57 time 5 30 ms Feb 13 12 49 19 64 bytes from 1 1 1 1  icmp seq 3 ttl 57 time 5 71 ms Feb 13 12 49 20 64 bytes from 1 1 1 1  icmp seq 4 ttl 57 time 5 86 ms  or  ping 1 1 1 1 -I eth0   ts  quot   FT X  quot   Allows for the same strftime format strings as the shell date workaround

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My original submission was incorrect because it did not evaluate date for each line  Corrections have been made   Try this    ping google com   xargs -L 1 -I      date             produces the following output  Thu Aug 15 10 13 59 PDT 2013  PING google com  74 125 239 103   56 data bytes Thu Aug 15 10 13 59 PDT 2013  64 bytes from 74 125 239 103  icmp seq 0 ttl 55 time 14 983 ms Thu Aug 15 10 14 00 PDT 2013  64 bytes from 74 125 239 103  icmp seq 1 ttl 55 time 17 340 ms Thu Aug 15 10 14 01 PDT 2013  64 bytes from 74 125 239 103  icmp seq 2 ttl 55 time 15 898 ms Thu Aug 15 10 14 02 PDT 2013  64 bytes from 74 125 239 103  icmp seq 3 ttl 55 time 15 720 ms Thu Aug 15 10 14 03 PDT 2013  64 bytes from 74 125 239 103  icmp seq 4 ttl 55 time 16 899 ms Thu Aug 15 10 14 04 PDT 2013  64 bytes from 74 125 239 103  icmp seq 5 ttl 55 time 16 242 ms Thu Aug 15 10 14 05 PDT 2013  64 bytes from 74 125 239 103  icmp seq 6 ttl 55 time 16 574 ms   The -L 1 option causes xargs to process one line at a time instead of words

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Try this line   while sleep 1 do echo    date   d- m- y- T    ping -c 1 whatever com   gawk  FNR  2 print  Response from    4  8       tee -a  yourfolder pingtest log done   You ll have to cancel it with ctrl-c tho

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On macos you can do   ping --apple-time 127 0 0 1  The output looks like   16 07 11 315419 64 bytes from 127 0 0 1  icmp seq 0 ttl 64 time 0 064 ms 16 07 12 319933 64 bytes from 127 0 0 1  icmp seq 1 ttl 64 time 0 157 ms 16 07 13 322766 64 bytes from 127 0 0 1  icmp seq 2 ttl 64 time 0 066 ms 16 07 14 324649 64 bytes from 127 0 0 1  icmp seq 3 ttl 64 time 0 148 ms 16 07 15 328743 64 bytes from 127 0 0 1  icmp seq 4 ttl 64 time 0 092 ms

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terminal output  ping -i 5 google com   xargs -L 1 -I      date    Y- m- d  H  M  S       file output  ping -i 5 google com   xargs -L 1 -I      date    Y- m- d  H  M  S       gt  test txt  terminal   file output  ping -i 5 google com   xargs -L 1 -I      date    Y- m- d  H  M  S        tee test txt  file output background  nohup ping -i 5 google com   xargs -L 1 -I      date    Y- m- d  H  M  S       gt  test txt  amp

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On OS X you can simply use the --apple-time option   ping -i 2 --apple-time www apple com   Produces results like   10 09 55 691216 64 bytes from 72 246 225 209  icmp seq 0 ttl 60 time 34 388 ms 10 09 57 687282 64 bytes from 72 246 225 209  icmp seq 1 ttl 60 time 25 319 ms 10 09 59 729998 64 bytes from 72 246 225 209  icmp seq 2 ttl 60 time 64 097 ms

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ping -D -n -O -i1 -W1 8 8 8 8   or maybe  while true  do       ping -n -w1 -W1 -c1 8 8 8 8         grep -E  rtt 100           sed -e  s    date   g         sleep 1    done

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Pipe the result to awk    ping host   awk   if  0    bytes from   print strftime      0 else print

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