Save ping results to TXT file - windows

Question

I am trying to build a script that will save some ping result info to a text file. The only info I really need is date, time, ipaddress, % of loss, and average time.
I have been able to make parts of this work.
I can get the time and date to save to the text file but nothing else.
The other problem I'm having is when I do get it to save to a text file it saved 100s of results to the file. I only want it to save the final result. Then when I rerun the file it would add a new entry to the text file.
Here is a sample of what I have been playing with:
#echo on
SET ip=10.22.222.54
#echo. %date% at %time% to %ip%>>PingLogs.txt
ping %ip% -n 1 >>Logs.txt
stop
This is what I expect it to look like when saving to a text file:
06/07/2019 : 21:54 : 10.22.222.54 - 0% - 0ms,
06/07/2019 : 20:18 : 10.22.222.54 - 0% - 0ms,

Answer 1

Use a for /f loop to catch the output of a command. As your command ping output several lines, it needs a lot of analyzing to find out the correct tokens and delimiters to get the desired parts. Then just reassemble them to your needs and put a loop around:
#echo off
set "IP=www.google.de"
:loop
set "loss="
for /f "tokens=1,9 delims=( " %%a in ('ping -n 1 %IP% ^|findstr "%% ms,"') do (
if not defined loss (set "loss=%%a") else (set "average=%%b")
)
echo %date% : %time% : %IP% - %loss% - %average%
goto :loop
(Note: findstr "%% ms," looks for lines that contain a % (has to be escaped with another %) and/or the string ms, - exactly the two lines, we need). You could also use `findstr "loss Average", but then the script would only work on English Windows versions. I like to keep my scripts as language independent as possible.
Output:
07.06.2019 : 19:40:39,37 : www.google.com - 0% - 13ms
07.06.2019 : 19:40:41,25 : www.google.com - 0% - 13ms
07.06.2019 : 19:40:43,24 : www.google.com - 0% - 15ms
07.06.2019 : 19:40:45,25 : www.google.com - 0% - 13ms
07.06.2019 : 19:40:47,24 : www.google.com - 0% - 13ms
Note: date/time format depends on locale settings - yours probably look different.
Note: with ping -n 1 don't expect loss to be anything other than either 0% or 100%
Note: with ping -n 1, Minimum, Maximum and Average all are the same (this script takes Average nevertheless, so if you use something other than /n 1, the output is still what you expect)

Answer 2

If you needed to ensure that the date and time format were always presented in the same way, you could use this .bat file script to call a PowerShell script. Put both of these scripts in the same directory.
=== pip.bat
powershell -NoLogo -NoProfile -File "%~dp0pip.ps1" >pip.txt
=== pip.ps1
$Computers = #('localhost', 'asdfa')
foreach ($Computer in $Computers) {
if ($tc = Test-Connection -ComputerName $Computer -Count 1 -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue) {
ForEach-Object {
"{0} : {1} : {2} - {3}% - {4}" -f #(
(Get-Date -f "MM/dd/yyyy")
, (Get-Date -f "HH:mm")
, $tc.Address
, "0"
, $tc.ResponseTime
)
}
} else {
"{0} : {1} : {2} - {3}% - {4}" -f #(
(Get-Date -f "MM/dd/yyyy")
, (Get-Date -f "HH:mm")
, $Computer
, "100"
, 0
)
}
}