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Is there a way to see a running-total ping statistic, without needing to stop and restart ping?

When running, I see this:

64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3758 ttl=52 time=32.387 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3759 ttl=52 time=30.771 ms
64 bytes from 8.8.8.8: icmp_seq=3760 ttl=52 time=37.255 ms

I want to know how many timeouts I've had so far. When I stop the ping, I get this information:

^C
--- 8.8.8.8 ping statistics ---
3807 packets transmitted, 3190 packets received, 16.2% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 30.078/34.463/358.893/8.354 ms

How can I show the ping statistics without stopping ping? Is there another tool that's better suited to this?

I'm running OS X 10.8.2, currently using BSD ping.

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Pressing Ctrl+T during execution will show you the statistics without stopping ping.

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  • Perhaps you might want to put that in an answer...?
    – Nevin Williams
    Commented Apr 25, 2013 at 4:04
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    I found this helpful, but I'm not using OSX, so I want to add that under Linux you have to use Ctrl+\ (to send SIGQUIT).
    – Stefan Seidel
    Commented Apr 25, 2013 at 7:15
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    Ctrl+T also works for FreeBSD.
    – KeyszerS
    Commented May 31, 2015 at 14:50
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Download, install and use MTR - this provides a combined ping and traceroute, and is available for most OS's (including OSX). It shows everything above, for every hop between you and your destination host and updates every ping.

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