[Wlug] ping command expansion

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 04 April 2007, Chuck Noyes wrote:
> I want to ping lots and lots of consecutive ip addresses. If I issue
> ping 192.168.1.{1,2,3}, I get ping 192.168.1.1 192.168.1.2 192.168.1.3
> which isn't exactly what I want.
>
> How can I issue a "short-hand" ping command, that will expand to
> ping 192.168.1.1
> ping 192.168.1.2
> ping 192.168.1.3
> etc.

eval $(echo 'ping 192.168.1.'{1..10}';')
-mike
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