Pinglist :: Command Line Tool

July 22nd, 2010 | Posted By: Tim | Filed under: Command Line, Downloads, Software, Windows |

Ah the command line, wonderfully powerful and often so cryptic it bends your mind like a pretzel…

But we geeks love to use it none the less.

Pinglist is a little handy tool I whipped up a few days ago.

One of the hard things to do on the command line which should dead simple is to ping a list of machines and return if they are up or down.

Well with Pinglist you can!

Its really an extension of the traditional Windows “ping” command that is used by every single tech across the globe.

What it does is looks in the specified directory for a nominated text file name and outputs a CSV sheet with the discovered results.

Pinglist syntax looks like this:

C:\> pinglist input output

To break it down further:

pinglist is of course the name of the tool

input is the name of the .txt file you want to query without .txt - this file should list of machines (one machine name per line)

output is the name of the .csv you wish to output

When you are running the tool its output will look as below:

C:\> pinglist input output
Machine Up - 1000h
Machine Up - 1000he
Machine Down - Machine1
Machine Down - Machine2
Machine Down - Machine3

And the CSV Output looks like:

Raw CSV:

CSV in Excel:

So if you like what you see, grab a copy here…

Click here to Download Pinglist 0.25b

(File Size: 188kb)