When I use the 'Ping' command in a terminal window, how do I terminate the ping? I have pinged my router (192.168.1.1) and the results have displayed in the terminal window, but the program keeps running with no indication as to how to terminate.
I can end the command by closing the command terminal window, but I would rather keep it open so I can compare pings with different addresses.
Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
5 Answers
There are three options:
Manually interrupt the
pingcommand using Ctrl+C, as described in @steeldriver's answer.Use
ping's "count" option (-c COUNT) to send exactly COUNT pings and then terminate automatically, as described in @bodhi.zazen's answer.Use
ping's "deadline" option (-w DEADLINE) to run for exactly DEADLINE seconds and then terminate automatically.
Of course you can combine the three options. If you pass both a "count" and a "deadline" option, ping will terminate as soon as the first event occurs. And Ctrl+C works always anyway.
Here's an example with a "count" of maximal 10 pings and a "deadline" of 5 seconds, but which got terminated manually using Ctrl+C after 3 pings (^C):
$ ping -c 10 -w 5 askubuntu.com
PING askubuntu.com (104.16.110.188) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 104.16.110.188: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=54.6 ms
64 bytes from 104.16.110.188: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=52.5 ms
64 bytes from 104.16.110.188: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=54.0 ms
^C
--- askubuntu.com ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 2001ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 52.582/53.733/54.611/0.850 msYou can use Ctrl+C to send a SIGINT (interrupt signal) to the ping process - see Unix signals
Either give ping a count with the -c option :
ping -c 4 google.comOr use the keys Ctrl+C to terminate the command.
You should try Ctrl + C to stop the processus.
1You can try ctrl + c to send an interrupt signal, it will terminate the program without closing terminal
