How to get only the reply line of a ping test on Windows

Question

Usually, when pinging a server IP address we have this in return:

Pinging <IP address> with 32 bytes of data:
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121
Reply from <ip> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121

Ping statistics for <IP address>:
packets: sent = 4, Received = 4, lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-secounds:
Minimum = 151ms, Maximum = 151 ms, Average = 151 ms

How do I get only the following line (only the reply line of one ping test) in return by a simple command in cmd.exe on Windows (whatever Windows language used)?

Reply from <IP address> : bytes=32 time=151 TTL=121

Maybe the simplest way is to display only the second line? How should this be done? Because I don't know how to do it on Windows.

score 23 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '13 at 15:55

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This may work more universally.

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP> | FIND "TTL="

answered May 27 '13 at 15:55

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Ofir Luzon · Answer 2 · 2012-10-16T17:24:46.293

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You can combine findstr command with the skip lines option of for:

C:\>ping 127.0.0.1 | for /f "skip=3 tokens=*" %a in ('findstr Reply') do @echo %a

Output is:

Reply from 127.0.0.1: bytes=32 time<1ms TTL=128

Change %a to %%a if writing a batch file.

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answered Oct 16 '12 at 16:55

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score 3 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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Well,

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP>

Will send only 1 ping request. And you should be able to find the reply line using none other than the FIND command.

So, something like this:

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP> | FIND "Reply"

UPDATE

I know the above works on an English, Windows 7 machine. I would assume that it would work for other localizations, but this may be an incorrect assumption.

UPDATE 2

This question seems to provide some insight. You may have to write the output of ping to a file (using the > output redirection pipe) and then use the commands in the answers to get only the second line.

edited May 23 '17 at 11:55

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It will not work for all versions of windows(those which have different language than english) – mastermind Sep 07 '12 at 14:22
Interesting, terminal commands vary by localization? That strikes me as odd. – mjgpy3 Sep 07 '12 at 14:26
@ mjgpy3 : Yes. Language is a problem. Because result of windows ping tool changes when language of operating system changes. Google it and you will see I am right. – mastermind Sep 07 '12 at 14:32
maybe displaying only the second line of the answer by a grep? But I don't know how to make it on cmd.exe. – mastermind Sep 07 '12 at 14:34
@ mjgspy: I am looking for a direct command actually, like we can do easily on Linux. I do not want to create a file only for a ping. – mastermind Sep 07 '12 at 14:51
@mastermind, I understand, I am sorry I was unable to help you. – mjgpy3 Sep 07 '12 at 14:55

score 2 · Answer 4 · answered Sep 07 '12 at 15:03

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You can accomplish this with powershell... here is the code you can add to a script

$ping = new-object System.Net.NetworkInformation.Ping
$reply = $ping.send('127.0.0.1')
if ($reply.status -eq "Success"){
    [string]::Format("Reply from {0},time={1}",$reply.Address.ToString(),$reply.RoundtripTime)
    }else{
    $z = [system.net.dns]::gethostaddresses($hostname)[0].ipaddresstostring
    [string]::Format("FAIL,{0},{1}",$z,"***")
}

You can format the string in any format you want.

answered Sep 07 '12 at 15:03

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So if I understand well there is no direct commands for doing it like on Linux? – mastermind Sep 07 '12 at 15:09
not that I know of... I have used this script snippet in the past with success. – mhatch73 Sep 07 '12 at 15:26

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered Sep 08 '12 at 09:50

It's pretty simple from within batch, but from command line... ugly is major understatement:

(for /f "skip=1 delims=" %F in ('ping -n 1 localhost') do @if not defined _A @echo %F&set _A=0) &set "_A="

But it does the trick, prints second line (whatever it will happen to contain) and skips the rest. You may change line it prints changing skip=.

If you have powershell available, you could simply do: (yes I know it's not how pinging is supposed to be done in PS): powershell "ping -n 1 localhost | select -index 2". You may need to play with index, as on my (XP) laptop ping inserts addtional CR in each line, which has an effect of double - spacing output from PS.

score 2 · Answer 6 · answered Sep 11 '19 at 15:13

For some reason, I couldn't get the FIND pipe to work in a powershell 5.1 shell. Feeling like this was all overly complicated, I thought if only I could grep the Reply line? I then found the powershell equivalent! I just used select-string on the first line matching 'Reply' which gave me the one line output I was looking for. So this worked very simply and easy for me.

ping -n 1 <hostname/IP> | select-string -pattern 'Reply'

score 1 · Answer 7 · answered Oct 26 '12 at 16:26

Based on @wmz answer,

(for /f "skip=3 tokens=*" %F in ('ping -n 1 <hostname/IP>') do @if not defined _A @echo %F&set _A=0) &set "_A="

is ok as a one-liner not language dependent.
It will also give the result when no response is given (Timeout), where find and findstr will not.

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