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

Reliable old ping in a separate bash script:

#!/bin/bash
ipaddr='8.8.8.8' # Google's public DNS server
[[ -z `ping -c1 $ipaddr |& grep -o 'Network is unreachable'` ]] || exit 1
[[ -z `ping -c3 $ipaddr |& grep -o '100% packet loss'` ]] && exit 0 || exit 1

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Put this on a separate script. It will handle different network situations as (1) not being connected to a network, (2) connected to the network but cannot access the internet (or at least Google), and (3) connected to the internet.

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You may later use the exit code of the script to check connectivity, e.g.

~$ script-name && echo online || echo offline

Answer 2

Without wget

#!/bin/bash

echo -e "GET http://google.com HTTP/1.0\n\n" | nc google.com 80 > /dev/null 2>&1

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
    echo "Online"
else
    echo "Offline"
fi

Enjoy ;)

Answer 3

#!/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

Answer 4

A variation on Majal's solution above is just to test the return code from ping, which returns 0 if the site responds, 1 if there is no reply and 2 if the network is unreachable.

    ping -c 1 -t 5 8.8.8.8 2&>1
    rc=$?
    [[ $rc -eq 0 ]] && { echo "Connected to the Internet" ; exit 0 ; } \
 || [[ $rc -eq 1 ]] && { echo "No reply from Google DNS" ; exit 1 ; } \
 || [[ $rc -eq 2 ]] && { echo "Network unreachable" ; exit 2 ; }

Using ping has the advantage of not needing to download anything, improving the speed of the test.

Answer 5

Use the timeout option -t:

ping -q -t 5 -w1 -c1 8.8.8.8 t

Answer 6

Using wget:

#!/bin/bash

wget -q --tries=10 --timeout=20 --spider http://google.com
if [[ $? -eq 0 ]]; then
        echo "Online"
else
        echo "Offline"
fi