Re: network script syntax problem

Jude DaShiell <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.blinux.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
ping returns an exit code of 0 when it fails to connect.  I tried that 
already.

I used:
ping -c 5 8.8.8.8
echo $?
and got back zero.
On Fri, 6 Nov 2015, Ari Moisio wrote:

> Date: Fri, 6 Nov 2015 07:59:51
> From: Ari Moisio <[email protected]>
> Reply-To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
> To: Linux for blind general discussion <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: network script syntax problem
> 
> Hi
>
> The $(...) does not capture stderr output.
>
> Could you use ping exit code directly; it will fail  in it got no repllies.
>
>
>

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