I am trying to write a small script that will track network latency with ping.
I need to write to a file and tag each ping entry with a date and time. I need to see the responses in real time and stop the script if the ping times are too long.
I can get the ping results and summary in a file without the date, code below
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "Enter Dealer number: "
read deal
echo "Enter IP address: "
read ip
touch ./${deal}_pingtest.txt
ping $ip > ./${deal}_pingtest.txt &
tail -f ./${deal}_pingtest.txt
stdout results
Enter Dealer number:
test
Enter IP address:
8.8.8.8
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=4.87 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=5.36 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=8.30 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=4.48 ms
^C
File results
PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=4.87 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=5.36 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=8.30 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=4.48 ms
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
4 packets transmitted, 4 received, 0% packet loss, time 2999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 4.488/5.758/8.309/1.506 ms
when I add the date to the script the file results never show the stats script with timestamp
#!/usr/bin/env bash
echo "Enter Dealer number: "
read deal
echo "Enter IP address: "
read ip
touch ./${deal}_pingtest.txt
ping $ip | while read pong; do echo "$(date +%Y-%m-%d\|%H:%M:%S): $pong"; done > ./${deal}_pingtest.txt &
tail -f ./${deal}_pingtest.txt
stdout results
Enter Dealer number:
test
Enter IP address:
8.8.8.8
2017-08-04|11:31:29: PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
2017-08-04|11:31:29: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=4.71 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:30: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=4.53 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:31: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=4.85 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:32: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=5.11 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:33: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=4.51 ms
^C
file results
2017-08-04|11:31:29: PING 8.8.8.8 (8.8.8.8) 56(84) bytes of data.
2017-08-04|11:31:29: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=1 ttl=58 time=4.71 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:30: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=2 ttl=58 time=4.53 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:31: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3 ttl=58 time=4.85 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:32: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=4 ttl=58 time=5.11 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:33: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=5 ttl=58 time=4.51 ms
2017-08-04|11:31:34: 64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=6 ttl=58 time=4.89 ms
Thank you all for any guidance.