On 2011 Apr 06 (Wed) at 12:47:40 +0200 (+0200), David Vasek wrote: :On Wed, 6 Apr 2011, Peter Hessler wrote: : :>Sometimes I want ping to be quiet. Not quiet in the "only show me :>headers" way that the original author thought was cute, but in the :>"don't show me anything" way, so cron doesn't spam me with useless :>crap. :> :>So, in honor of that, here is a patch to add -Q to ping and ping6. : :What is the advantage of another button over redirecting stdout and :error to /dev/null? Is the completely quiet ping used so often? : :Regards, :David :
I use silent ping very often (especially in scripts and cronjobs), and it pisses me off that I need to redirect to /dev/null. I'm scratching an itch, here. -- It's the thought, if any, that counts!
