ping tip: CTRL + \ (backslash)

September 28, 2009

I were checking one of the servers connectivity using ping, usually i use CTRL + \ (backslash) to send a quit signal for applications i run in terminal, but ping responded to the signal by showing ping status:

64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1253 ttl=47 time=433 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1254 ttl=47 time=239 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1255 ttl=47 time=359 ms 1255/1216 packets, 3% loss, min/avg/ewma/max = 221.050/393.449/357.675/977.157 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1256 ttl=47 time=325 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1257 ttl=47 time=411 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1258 ttl=47 time=260 ms 64 bytes from x.x.x.x: icmp_seq=1259 ttl=47 time=275 ms

Pressing CTRL + \ while using ping will show ping status.

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5 Responses to “ping tip: CTRL + \ (backslash)”

ping tip: CTRL + \ (backslash) | TuxWire : The Linux Blog said:

September 28th, 2009 at 6:21 pm

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Matt Simmons said:

September 28th, 2009 at 7:09 pm

Excellent tip! (and might I say, you have quite a dashing wordpress theme)
Sending SIGQUIT (ctrl-\) to ping will make it print a status line and continue pinging. | TuxWire : The Linux Blog said:

September 29th, 2009 at 10:55 pm

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anonymous coward said:

September 30th, 2009 at 4:41 pm

you have the same tips on windows, just use CTRL+PAUSE while ping’ing 😉
不停止ping的情况下取得统计信息 | 将之典藏 said:

October 25th, 2011 at 5:03 am

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