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#1 2005-11-08 07:41:03

rasat
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How to check if online?

What's a simple bash script checking if online/connected before running wget?


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#2 2005-11-08 07:44:15

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Re: How to check if online?

I suppose you could run a `ping -c1 www.google.com` and check the return code.


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#3 2005-11-08 07:54:48

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Re: How to check if online?

Hm, the only problem is when servers block the ICMP packets... Then the server won't respond. But i don't know a better solution sorry


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#4 2005-11-08 09:42:22

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Re: How to check if online?

Google don't block ICMP packets though and it's the most reliable site I can think of. You could always check a couple of top sites if you wanted to be sure though. There are so many different ways to get net access, the best way would probably be to ping a site and see if you can or not.

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#5 2005-11-08 10:59:57

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Re: How to check if online?

wget --spider www.blalblabla.com

checks if the site exists without downloading and returns 0 if it does.

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#6 2005-11-08 11:06:37

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Re: How to check if online?

Good one Penguin - I never knew that about wget!


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#7 2005-11-08 11:12:47

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Re: How to check if online?

Okay, that was verry good, didn't know that, thanks!


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#8 2005-11-08 11:30:31

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Re: How to check if online?

Both ping and wget works. Is there a way to speed up the timing. As default, it takes about 1 minute to get an error reply when no connection.


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#9 2005-11-08 11:36:28

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Re: How to check if online?

with ping you can change the timeout with the -t  switch.. I think the argument is in millis.
looking at the wget man page, it has a -t switch for the number of tries - but I don't know how that works with --spider.


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#10 2005-11-08 11:48:19

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Re: How to check if online?

wget is --timeout=seconds

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#11 2005-11-08 12:43:17

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Re: How to check if online?

You can also use fping package.

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#12 2005-11-08 13:24:03

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Re: How to check if online?

Thanks guys!

wget --output-file=/tmp/check.tmp --timeout=15 --spider www.user-contributions.org


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#13 2005-11-08 20:21:45

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Re: How to check if online?

rasat wrote:

Thanks guys!

wget --output-file=/tmp/check.tmp --timeout=15 --spider www.user-contributions.org

Instead of parsing an output file for the results you can check the return status:

wget --timeout=15 --spider www.user-contributions.org
if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
echo "URL not found or no connectivity"
fi

you can append &>/dev/null to the wget line to not display standard output or error.

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