Suppress output from ping in script?

RouterOS Scripting
1

Is there a way to suppress the output from the ping command in a script? I am on 6.x - running 6.15

Essentially, I only want the return value from the command - number of successful pings - without the ping command printing to the console.

:local addr 192.168.100.2
:local pingInt "50ms"
:local pingCount 5

:if ([/ping address=$addr interval=$pingInt count=$pingCount] = 0) do={
	:put ("Ping: FAILED")
} else={
	:put ("Ping: OK")
}

Right now this produces:

/system script run test
HOST SIZE TTL TIME STATUS
192.168.100.2 56 64 0ms
192.168.100.2 56 64 0ms
192.168.100.2 56 64 0ms
192.168.100.2 56 64 0ms
192.168.100.2 56 64 0ms
sent=5 received=5 packet-loss=0% min-rtt=0ms avg-rtt=0ms max-rtt=0ms
HOST SIZE TTL TIME STATUS

Ping: OK

What I want is this:

/system script run test
Ping: OK

Actually, there seems to be a bug in the output of ping - does not switch off bold face. My put command prints in bold face.

2

Not.

3

use execute {command}
if ([execute {ping 8.8.8.8 count=3}]!= 0) do={put “ok”}

4

Hi There, seems this solution not working as expected. Does anybody solve this task in other manner ?

[admin@mtik] > :put [:execute {/ping 192.168.88.1 count=5}]
Output:
*d3

5

Hello,

The “:execute” command returns the job id, so that code will always return “ok”.

One alternative is:

Create a temp global variable

:global ABC “”

Execute the ping in background and get the jobId

:local jobId [:execute {:global ABC [:ping count=5 192.168.88.1]}]

Waits the job end

:while ([:len [:system script job find .id=$jobId]] > 0) do={
:delay 1s;
}

Use the result on the global variable

:put $ABC

6

search tag # rextended execute

Bravo!

:global pingResult -1
{
    :local jobID [:execute ":set pingResult [:ping count=5 1.1.1.1]"]
    :while ([:len [/system script job find where .id=$jobID]] > 0) do={
        :delay 1s
    }
}
:put $pingResult