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                 |  | UGU: Unix Guru Universe - Unix Tip #4189- July 31, 2012
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PING THE HOST TABLE 
There's no need to grep and
 pipe the output into awk
 (you can "grep" with awk.)
 
 awk '/^[0-9]/{print $1}' /etc/hosts |xargs -l ping -c 1 $1
 
 
 This tip generously supported by: bmaclean@silverplatter.com
 
 And another:
 
 awk '/^[^#]/ {system("ping -c 1 "$1)}' < /etc/hosts
 
 
 This tip generously supported by: maddox@xmission.com
 
 
 
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