6 examples for ping

  # Beep when a machine starts responding to ping again
ping -i 60 -a IP_address
        

  # Pings a domain.
ping www.google.com
        

  # Limit the number of times an address is pinged (4, in this case).
ping -c4 www.example.com
        

  # Pings an address 10.0.0.150 in this example appending a timestamp with an interval of 200 ms
ping -i 0.2 10.0.0.150 | while read pong; do echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d:%H:%M:%S:%N): $pong" ; done
        

  # a corrected command to ping a host and make a beep at every response. Useful for troubleshooting when you
re not in front of your screen. Corrected from other command in that the -a flag needs to happeb before the host of the machine to ping. 
ping -a google.com
        

  # ping google.com and beep at every response. Useful for troubleshooting cables, when you aren't in front of your screen.
ping google.com -a