LINUX: Ping Command To Print Date TimeStamps (How To Doc)

Below ping command can be used to print the date timestamps during the ping test.

ping <IP> | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done

Below is example snippet of above command.

# ping 10.10.10.17 | while read pong; do echo "$(date): $pong"; done

Thu Oct  6 16:11:40 EDT 2016: 64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=64.2 ms
Thu Oct  6 16:11:41 EDT 2016: 64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.094 ms
Thu Oct  6 16:11:42 EDT 2016: 64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=3 ttl=64 time=0.067 ms
Thu Oct  6 16:11:43 EDT 2016: 64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=4 ttl=64 time=0.100 ms
Thu Oct  6 16:11:44 EDT 2016: 64 bytes from 10.10.10.10: icmp_seq=5 ttl=64 time=0.155 ms

Products to which Article Applies

All Linux Operating Systems

Additional References

https://gist.github.com/olimortimer/9c6c3cf8d1364f4fe9d2

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