pinging.....and 1 more question.

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Unlike dos's ability to ping perhiphals on the windows network, how do i do this in Mac OSX10?

I may belive it is called "finger", or am i wrong?
If im right, is it $ finger THISMACHINENAME OR IP ?
I basically want to see how to ping items on the network so that if i run into an issue , i can troubleshoot it first by finding out if im even connected to it.


And 1 more question, may not belong here.
What bash shell am i working in on my mac, what is the command to find out?
o, 1 more...i swear..... whats the command (or how to)to find out what version of mac osx i am running?


Thanks a lot guys.
 
The command is still "ping" and it works exactly the same on Windows, Unix and Mac OSX.

The default shell in MacOSX is now BASH. you can change the default shell for any given user in /applications/utilities/directory services. All common unix shells such as tcsh, ksh, csh are available.

o, 1 more...i swear..... whats the command (or how to)to find out what version of mac osx i am running?
Click to expand...

Click on Apple menu in top left --> "About this Macintosh...".
 
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