Scripting help

[darkjinni2]

I am trying to learn scripting, I don't care what language, I want to do some simple tasks

eg: make a script to ping addresses XXX.XXX.XXX.0 through XXX.XXX.XXX.255 and then make a report or list that contains the ones that actually replied

I would like either to be pointed in the right direction or be a luke to someone's yoda if you will.

Additionally the scripts would be for windows based computers but I would like to be able to write them on a MAC.

Thanks for the help and/or assistance.

 

[baillou2]

I'm no yoda - if fact I'll take lessons from Luke - but if you're referring to scripting in the strict sense then there really is no language per se. Or rather there is only one, but I don't know anything about scripting for windows. I dabble with linux shell scripting (which is also good for learning to write Mac scripts as they are both Unix-ish OS's).

In any case, to do things like what you described above wouldn't require learning C or C++ or anything like that, just basic bash scripting.

This site here,
Linux Shell Scripting Tutorial - A Beginner's handbook would be a good resource, but it's for linux/unix.

good luck.

 

[Rainulf]

Maybe something like this will do (shell scripting):

for i in `seq 1 255`
do
  ping 192.168.1.$i 2 | grep "no answer"
done

In any case, I Googled it for you