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Created December 29, 2011 03:00
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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?
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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
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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

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