UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers

Hi!

I have small problem. I want to ping a server and the result shouldn't be printed in the browser window, just become a value.

Here you can see the script that I have:

<?
$command="ping linux.com -t ttl -c1 | tail -1 | awk '{print $4 \" \" $5}'";
$output = system($command);
system("exit(0)");
echo "DATA: $output";
?>

When I run this in my browser the resualt will be as follow:

33.1/33.1/33.1 ms DATA: 33.1/33.1/33.1 ms

The echo value is just a test for me to see if the $output value is OK.

What I want is that the value before DATA: 33.1/33.1/33.1 ms
shouldn't be viewed in the browser just DATA: 33.1/33.1/33.1 ms

Could someone please help me with this problem?

Best Regards

Peter Håkansson

No we can't because you enclosed your script in angle brackets.

Anyway, change your script (looks like PHP?) to:

Code:

<?
$command="ping linux.com -t  ttl -c1 | tail -1 | awk '{print \"DATA: \" $4 \" \" $5}'";
system($command);
?>

You don't need the second system call, and you dont need to assign the output of the first to a variable unless you need to check that it succeeded (the output of your command is displayed automatically)

HTH

removed html tags / added code tags --oombera