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

User · Answer

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

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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

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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

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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

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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  quot test bat quot  the result on CMD will be  Hello  Press any key to continue        Why  Because  quot test bat quot  is calling the  quot ping bat quot    quot ping google com quot  is interpreted as calling the  quot ping bat quot  script   Same is happening if script  quot ping bat quot  contains  quot ping google com quot   The script will execute himself in a loop   Easy ways to avoid this   Do not name your script  quot ping bat quot   You can name the script as  quot ping bat quot  but inside the script use  quot ping exe google com quot  instead of  quot ping google com quot

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From Batch file  ping a ip only once using the following command      Ping 192 168 199 10 -n 1

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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

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

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Enter in a command prompt window ping    and read the short help output after pressing RETURN  Or take a look on   Ping - Windows XP documentation Ping - Microsoft TechNet article   Explanation for option -t given by Microsoft      Pings the specified host until stopped  To see statistics and continue type Control-Break  To stop type Control-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   gt nul if errorlevel 1 goto NoServer  echo  MyServer  is availabe  rem Insert commands here  for example 1 or more net use to connect network drives  goto  EOF   NoServer echo  MyServer  is not availabe yet  pause goto  EOF

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i used Mofi sample  and change some parameters  no you can do -t    SystemRoot  system32 ping exe -n -1 4 2 2 4

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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

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