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my-utils/network/pingable -rwxr-xr-x 541 bytes
ef6d4cd1 — Dominic Ricottone Incomplete work on hardware/media utils 4 days ago 
                                                                                
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#!/bin/sh

name="pingable"
version="1.0"
help_message=$(/usr/bin/cat <<-EOF
	Check if an address or name is ping-able
	Usage: pingable [ ADDRESS | NAME ]
	Options:
	 -h, --help     print this message and exit
	 -v, --version  print version number and exit
EOF
)

# Note: `ping` will set the return code to...
#  0 on success
#  1 on failure to ping
#  2 on name resolution failure for most (i.e. Linux) platforms
# 68 on name resolution failure for some (i.e. macOS) platforms

. /usr/local/lib/myminiparse.sh

ping -c 1 $1 >/dev/null 2>&1