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How to Enable Timestamp in Linux Ping Command Output

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Pradeep Antil
Dec 31, 2020

Ping is the most widely used command on Linux and Unix servers for network troubleshooting. With the ping command we generally check connectivity to remote system either via its ip address or dns name. There can be some situations where we want to capture time in each ping reply. In this article, I will demonstrate how to enable timestamp in ping command output.

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Pradeep Antil

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