Save Ping Output in a text file

Question

I often have to ping servers for connectivity status. Is there a way to save the ping results (output) in a text file so that I can save entire day's ping results in a text file.

I am using Windows XP SP3.

Ping example:

ping 192.168.1.1 -t 

(using windows' ping)

or

ping 192.168.1.1

(using cygwin)

Answer 1

Use redirection, for example:

ping 192.168.1.1 -t > filename.txt

This will redirect all (standard) output from the program in to filename.txt, which will be created if it doesn't exist and overwritten if it does.

You can instead use >> instead of > to redirect the output to a file and append the results to the end of the file, instead of overwriting (with thanks to @Jane T for the reminder).

Note that you will not recieve the normal on-screen output if you do this.

Update in response to comment

To delay between pings and record the time of each you can do some scripting.

Here is a quick Windows batch file I've thrown together, it prints the time, pings google, then waits for 3 seconds before repeating itself. I'm not a batch file expert so if anyone spots any problems please flag them up! And this probably isn't the "best" way to achieve what you are after - that might make for a seperate question really.

@ECHO OFF

:LOOPSTART

time /T
ping www.google.com -n 4
sleep -m 3000

GOTO LOOPSTART

Save this in a .bat file somewhere, edit the ping target and delay time as you need it, then run the .bat using redirection to pump the output of the whole thing to a file.

Note that this batch file never ends, but can be terminated by Ctrl + C and then Y if run from cmd. (You must press Y because it asks if you want to stop the batch file - even thought you cannot see the question because you've redirected the output!)

Answer 2

You can use:

> ping 192.168.1.1 -t > ping-results

Answer 3

If you are using the command prompt just redirect it to a taxt file using this format (i.e ping 192.168.1.1 > ping.txt) . That will do it.