We can use "for loop" in interactive command, here is the example: we want to ping host/node from 10.100.11. 1 until 10.100.11. 10 : We use "i" as a variable, values of "i" are 1 until 10. In the ping option, we use "-c 1" this means that we send ping packet only one (default in linux is continues until stopped). here is the result: [syam@borneo03 ~]$ for i in {1..10}; do ping 10.100.11.$i -c 1; done PING 10.100.11.1 (10.100.11.1) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.100.11.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.58 ms --- 10.100.11.1 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 1ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.587/1.587/1.587/0.000 ms PING 10.100.11.2 (10.100.11.2) 56(84) bytes of data. 64 bytes from 10.100.11.2: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=1.09 ms --- 10.100.11.2 ping statistics --- 1 packets transmitted, 1 received, 0% packet loss, time 1ms rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 1.093/1.093/1.093/0.000 ms PING 10.100...