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  with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from  : bytes=32 time=151 TTL         


        

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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.

Answer 3

This may work more universally.

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

Answer 4

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.

Answer 5

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'

Answer 6

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.