Skip to content

Instantly share code, notes, and snippets.

@cowboy

cowboy/ping_stuff.sh

Created December 29, 2011 03:00
Show Gist options

  • Select an option

    Learn more about clone URLs
  • Save cowboy/1531434 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.

Select an option

Learn more about clone URLs
Save cowboy/1531434 to your computer and use it in GitHub Desktop.
Download ZIP
I want to know what machines I have on my network. Is there a better (also faster) way than to ping machines 192.168.0.1 - 192.168.0.255?
Raw
ping_stuff.sh
#!/bin/bash
for oct in {1..254}; do
ip="192.168.0.$oct"
echo -en "\033[s$ip"
ping -c 1 -t 1 "$ip" >/dev/null 2>&1 && echo || echo -en "\033[1K\033[u"
done
@oxyc
Copy link
Copy Markdown

oxyc commented Dec 29, 2011

You can ping the network by using the broadcast address at 192.168.0.255 (assuming your subnet mask is 255.255.255.0) and then running arp -a to get a list of all devices within it.

@cowboy
Copy link
Copy Markdown
Author

cowboy commented Dec 29, 2011

Thanks. Since writing this snippet, I did a little research and came up with a shell script wrapper around nmap:

https://github.com/cowboy/dotfiles/blob/master/bin/scan

Sign up for free to join this conversation on GitHub. Already have an account? Sign in to comment