Batch ERRORLEVEL ping response

Question

I\'m trying to use a batch file to confirm a network connection using ping. I want to do batch run and then print if the ping was successful or not. The problem is that it a

Answer 1

I 'm not exactly sure what the interaction between FIND and setting the error level is, but you can do this quite easily:

@echo off
for /f %%i in ('ping racer ^| find /c "(0%% loss)"') do SET MATCHES=%%i
echo %MATCHES%

This prints 0 if the ping failed, 1 if it succeeded. I made it look for just "0% loss" (not specifically 4 pings) so that the number of pings can be customized.

The percent sign has been doubled so that it's not mistaken for a variable that should be substituted.

The FOR trick serves simply to set the output of a command as the value of an environment variable.