Editing Ping (networking utility) (section)

==Invocation example==
The following is the output of running ping on Linux for sending five probes (1-second interval by default, configurable via -i option) to the target host ''www.example.com'':

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$ ping -c 5 www.example.com

PING www.example.com (93.184.216.34): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 93.184.216.34: icmp_seq=0 ttl=56 time=11.632 ms
64 bytes from 93.184.216.34: icmp_seq=1 ttl=56 time=11.726 ms
64 bytes from 93.184.216.34: icmp_seq=2 ttl=56 time=10.683 ms
64 bytes from 93.184.216.34: icmp_seq=3 ttl=56 time=9.674 ms
64 bytes from 93.184.216.34: icmp_seq=4 ttl=56 time=11.127 ms

--- www.example.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 packets received, 0.0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 9.674/10.968/11.726/0.748 ms
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The output lists each probe message and the results obtained. Finally, it lists the statistics of the entire test. In this example, the shortest [[round-trip time]] was 9.674 ms, the average was 10.968 ms, and the maximum value was 11.726 ms. The measurement had a [[standard deviation]] of 0.748 ms.