How to get only the reply line of a ping test on Windows

Question

Usually, when pinging a server IP address we have this in return:

Pinging <IP address> with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121

Ping statistics for <IP address>:
packets: sent = 4, Received = 4, lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-secounds:
Minimum = 151ms, Maximum = 151 ms, Average = 151 ms

How do I get only the following line (only the reply line of one ping test) in return by a simple command in cmd.exe on Windows (whatever Windows language used)?

Reply from <IP address> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121

Maybe the simplest way is to display only the second line? How should this be done? Because I don't know how to do it on Windows.

Acetic

Answer 1

This may work more universally.

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP> | FIND "TTL="

Ringer

Answer 2

You can combine findstr command with the skip lines option of for:

C:\>ping 127.0.0.1 | for /f "skip=3 tokens=*" %a in ('findstr Reply') do @echo %a

Output is:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Change %a to %%a if writing a batch file.

Circumnutate

Answer 3

Well,

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP>

Will send only 1 ping request. And you should be able to find the reply line using none other than the FIND command.

So, something like this:

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP> | FIND "Reply"

UPDATE

I know the above works on an English, Windows 7 machine. I would assume that it would work for other localizations, but this may be an incorrect assumption.

UPDATE 2

This question seems to provide some insight. You may have to write the output of ping to a file (using the > output redirection pipe) and then use the commands in the answers to get only the second line.

Muna

It will not work for all versions of windows(those which have different language than english) – Acetic

Interesting, terminal commands vary by localization? That strikes me as odd. – Muna

@ mjgpy3 : Yes. Language is a problem. Because result of windows ping tool changes when language of operating system changes. Google it and you will see I am right. – Acetic

maybe displaying only the second line of the answer by a grep? But I don't know how to make it on cmd.exe. – Acetic

@ mjgspy: I am looking for a direct command actually, like we can do easily on Linux. I do not want to create a file only for a ping. – Acetic

@mastermind, I understand, I am sorry I was unable to help you. – Muna

Answer 4

You can accomplish this with powershell... here is the code you can add to a script

$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$reply = $ping.send('127.0.0.1')
if ($reply.status -eq "Success"){
    [string]::Format("Reply from {0},time={1}",$reply.Address.ToString(),$reply.RoundtripTime)
    }else{
    $z = [system.net.dns]::gethostaddresses($hostname)[0].ipaddresstostring
    [string]::Format("FAIL,{0},{1}",$z,"***")
}

You can format the string in any format you want.

Impossibility

So if I understand well there is no direct commands for doing it like on Linux? – Acetic

not that I know of... I have used this script snippet in the past with success. – Impossibility

Answer 5

It's pretty simple from within batch, but from command line... ugly is major understatement:

(for /f "skip=1 delims=" %F in ('ping -n 1 localhost') do @if not defined _A @echo %F&set _A=0) &set "_A="

But it does the trick, prints second line (whatever it will happen to contain) and skips the rest. You may change line it prints changing skip=.

If you have powershell available, you could simply do: (yes I know it's not how pinging is supposed to be done in PS): powershell "ping -n 1 localhost | select -index 2". You may need to play with index, as on my (XP) laptop ping inserts addtional CR in each line, which has an effect of double - spacing output from PS.

Foilsman

Answer 6

For some reason, I couldn't get the FIND pipe to work in a powershell 5.1 shell. Feeling like this was all overly complicated, I thought if only I could grep the Reply line? I then found the powershell equivalent! I just used select-string on the first line matching 'Reply' which gave me the one line output I was looking for. So this worked very simply and easy for me.

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP> | select-string -pattern 'Reply'

Abuse

Answer 7

Based on @wmz answer,

(for /f "skip=3 tokens=*" %F in ('ping -n 1 <hostname/IP>') do @if not defined _A @echo %F&set _A=0) &set "_A="

is ok as a one-liner not language dependent.
It will also give the result when no response is given (Timeout), where find and findstr will not.

Agro