[Gloucs] What's wrong with this code?

[Keith Edmunds]

On Mon, 30 Jul 2007 22:33:27 +0100, glynd at walmore.com said:

> What's wrong with this line of code. Okay, other than it being a rubbish 
> way of testing that your gateway is available?
> 
> if [ "$(ping -c 1 192.168.1.200 | grep '1 received')" != "" ]

Well, you could make it a lot shorter:

if ping -c 1 192.168.1.200 >/dev/null
then
	echo "gateway reachable"
else
	echo "gateway unreachable"
fi

Maybe you had other errors in mind?

Keith

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