[Stephen-I-Am]

I was using the ping command from the unix command line. How do you get it to stop?

Stephen

[utidjian]

Originally posted by Stephen-I-Am:
I was using the ping command from the unix command line. How do you get it to stop?

Just type Ctrl-C. That is... press the key marked CONTROL (lower left of Mac keyboard) and while holding the CONTROL key down press the C key. Ctrl-C (or Ctrl+C) is shorthand for the above. Another way it is written is ^C. Ctrl-C is the usual way to quit a running command in Unix. Another method is Ctrl-D (which is console End-Of-File or EOF). To suspend a command (which is NOT the same thing as quit) use Ctrl-Z.

[DominikHoffmann]

Originally posted by Stephen-I-Am:
I was using the ping command from the unix command line. How do you get it to stop?

Stephen

Of course, if you look at the man page for ping, you'll learn that you could issue

Code:
ping -c 3 xx.xx.xx.xx

which would only send out three pings, just like the Windows command line, and then stop after receiving the response packets or timing out.

Dominik Hoffmann

[[APi]TheMan]

I guess it might be helpful to know that using Control-C to exit a program is the same as sending it an interrupt signal. To send an interrupt to a process you'd use kill like: kill -INT <process #>. You can test this by starting a process like top in one shell and then sending it an interrupt from another. Same thing as ^C!

I always thought a better name for kill would be "signal sender" but that's just me. See "kill -l" for a list of about thirty signals that you can send.

Take that as you will.

[Phil Sherry]

Originally posted by DominikHoffmann:
Of course, if you look at the man page for ping, you'll learn that you could issue

Code:
ping -c 3 xx.xx.xx.xx

i have that as an alias called `pping`

[[APi]TheMan]

Originally posted by Phil Sherry:
i have that as an alias called `pping`

Hehe, why not "3ping"?

[Phil Sherry]

Originally posted by [APi]TheMan:
Hehe, why not "3ping"?

mine's actually 4, not 3