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How To Ping With Date and Time To TXT File Using CMD

There are occasions where you will need to know How To Ping With Date and Time To TXT File Using CMD and a few Windows Ping commands can help. This will use a provide a date and a timestamp the result of each ping, with a bit of effort you can get it to do that. It’s quite useful if you specifically need to use the Windows Ping command. 

ping -t patrickdomingues.com|cmd /q /v /c "(pause&pause)>nul & for /l %a in () do (set /p "data=" && echo(!date! !time! !data!)&ping -n 2 patrickdomingues.com>nul" >C:\ping\pingtest.txt

Ping With Data and Time Using CMD

The above will continuously ping the address with a time and date to a output log file which in this case is called pingtest.txt , press Ctrl+C to end the session. If you do not need an output file remove the redirection to an output file string if you want to show the results in the console window.

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