save commant output to variable

RouterOS Scripting
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Hello fellow tikers,

is there any “straight” way to save command output (/ping count=x for example) to variable for parsing it later? :execute … file= is good but is not very straightforward :slight_smile:

TIA, regards,
Konstantin

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I’m not certain whether you want to save the output to disk or just put it in variable, but if it is the later case, you can do something like this:

 global a [:ping address=google.com count=5 as-value ]

Which stores the output for each separate ping in an array, a, that you can work on.

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Not my case exactly as I need final results, but thank you anyway, that’s a nice tip!

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:local dohServers {cloudflare=1.1.1.1; google=8.8.8.8; quad9=9.9.9.9};
:put $dohServers;
:foreach k,v in=$dohServers do={
	:local pingResult [:tostr [/tool ping address=$v count=1 as-value]];
	:execute ":global $k \"$pingResult\"";
	:put "Global variable: $k \"$pingResult\"";
};

cloudflare=1.1.1.1;google=8.8.8.8;quad9=9.9.9.9
Global variable: cloudflare “.id=*0;host=1.1.1.1;seq=0;size=56;time=00:00:00.014520;ttl=60”
Global variable: google “.id=*0;host=8.8.8.8;seq=0;size=56;time=00:00:00.014955;ttl=119”
Global variable: quad9 “.id=*0;host=9.9.9.9;seq=0;size=56;time=00:00:00.013914;ttl=59”