Batch for "Ping"

Moogly_91 Posted messages 21 Status Member -  
 Vassili -
Hello

I'm trying to create a batch file (on Windows XP) to perform a "ping" on a computer on my network.
When I run the file, the DOS window opens and the request is executed in an endless loop. What instructions should I add so that the batch runs normally as if it were in the command line?

Michel

8 answers

  1. Téka
     
    Hello everyone,

    I asked myself the same question as you Moogly_91, 6 years later... I created a file "ping.bat" containing a simple ping command (ping www.google.fr). And when I called my file: I type in the command prompt: "ping" and it loops without me being able to see a single result from the ping command.
    The explanation I came up with, after some tests, is that since I can call my file "ping" just as well as "ping.bat", and since this file contains a call to the "ping" command, the file I created calls itself recursively. Hence the "loop" effect.
    So I simply renamed my .bat file (to "pingu.bat" for example) and it works as intended :)

    Best regards.
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    1. wes
       
      OMG a big thank you, it's so stupid I did the same!
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    2. Vassili
       
      Same in 2020 and still on XP, I made a ping.bat :p
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