Ping option to know whether net is not in a proper way

Question

I need the option of ping which,If the net is disconnected, the pinging need to be stopped.Now if the net connection lost,It will wait and will continue after net came..

Answer 1

See man ping

-c count

Stop after sending count ECHO_REQUEST packets. With deadline option, ping waits for count ECHO_REPLY packets, until the time‐ out expires.

$ ping www.google.nl -c 5
PING www.l.google.com (66.102.13.104) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ez-in-f104.1e100.net (66.102.13.104): icmp_req=1 ttl=53 time=18.4 ms
64 bytes from ez-in-f104.1e100.net (66.102.13.104): icmp_req=2 ttl=53 time=18.8 ms
64 bytes from ez-in-f104.1e100.net (66.102.13.104): icmp_req=3 ttl=53 time=15.1 ms
64 bytes from ez-in-f104.1e100.net (66.102.13.104): icmp_req=4 ttl=54 time=16.8 ms
64 bytes from ez-in-f104.1e100.net (66.102.13.104): icmp_req=5 ttl=54 time=19.6 ms

--- www.l.google.com ping statistics ---
5 packets transmitted, 5 received, 0% packet loss, time 4005ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 15.133/17.781/19.660/1.615 ms