How to check internet access using bash script in linux?

Question

In my school, the internet is not available(every night after 23:0 the school will kill the internet, to put us in bed >..<), then the ping will never stop, though I have use

Answer 1

#!/bin/bash

INTERNET_STATUS="UNKNOWN"
TIMESTAMP=`date +%s`
while [ 1 ]
 do
    ping -c 1 -W 0.7 8.8.4.4 > /dev/null 2>&1
    if [ $? -eq 0 ] ; then
        if [ "$INTERNET_STATUS" != "UP" ]; then
            echo "UP   `date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z` $((`date +%s`-$TIMESTAMP))";
            INTERNET_STATUS="UP"
        fi
    else
        if [ "$INTERNET_STATUS" = "UP" ]; then
            echo "DOWN `date +%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S%Z` $((`date +%s`-$TIMESTAMP))";
            INTERNET_STATUS="DOWN"
        fi
    fi
    sleep 1
 done;

the output will produce smth like:

bash-3.2$ ./internet_check.sh
UP   2016-05-10T23:23:06BST 4
DOWN 2016-05-10T23:23:25BST 19
UP   2016-05-10T23:23:32BST 7

the number in the end of a line shows duration of previous state, i.e. 19 up, 7 secs down