How to get the output of a command?

[manjuks]

Hi All,

I need help in below command

/bin/ping -c 2 -W 5 $remotehost | grep \"[12] received\"

I just want to get the output out of the above command. Please can anybody help in this?

1 received
2 received

Thanks & regards,

[numberwhun]

Is it outputting anything? If so, try redirecting it to a file.

[manjuks]

Hi,

I got below error
grep: received": No such file or directory

Thanks,
Manjunath

[numberwhun]

Ok, then what you were grepping for, how you grepped for it, does not exist.