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From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
Subject: Re: bin/38573: ping -o option (exit after one reply) 
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The following reply was made to PR bin/38573; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Dima Dorfman <dima@trit.org>
To: David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk>
Cc: FreeBSD-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: bin/38573: ping -o option (exit after one reply) 
Date: Sun, 26 May 2002 23:07:33 +0000

 David Taylor <davidt@yadt.co.uk> wrote:
 > ping -o will exit after receiving a single reply packet, which is useful
 > for trying to see if a host/link is alive at all (which is what the script
 > was attempting to to do :).
 
 Isn't this the same as `ping -c 1`?

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