How to quit ping in Terminal.app?

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Morning.

I've forgotten to set the -c4 in ping. How can I stop now the ping command in the Terminal.app?

TIA and kind regards, Friedrich

MacBook Pro 2,16 GHz, Mac OS X (10.5.5), 2 GB RAM 250 GB HDD

Posted on Oct 10, 2008 12:09 PM

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Answer 1

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control-C stops most things.

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Answer 2

Easiest is to create an "alias" in your .bash_profile looking like this:

alias ping='ping -c4'

Now every ping command will only send 4 pings.

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