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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting simple script help needed Post 67777 by nobius on Sunday 27th of March 2005 09:41:15 PM
Old 03-27-2005
oh.. i know i need to use the exit code from the ping command but how do i get that value returned and assigned to a variable, the other thing is i dont want all the ping information onscreen when i run the script, running ping in the background using the ampersand doesnt seem to accomplish this
 

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