Ping specific web addresses?

I'm making a bash script to ping a certain web address. The problem is, when I say:
ping then ping says
ping: Name or service not known
Can somebody please help me with this? What is a program that I can use to ping an https server.
I have to have the slashes there because I want to ping that certain page.
Thank you in advance.

2 Answers

You can use httping:

httping 

If you want to check if your word exists, you need to specify, that only Status 200 is OK.

httping -m -o 200 

And maybe add -c 1 to exit after 1 probe and -l to avoid the Info message that SSL was auto enabled.

Output:

$ httping -l -m -o 200 -c1
69,734001
$ httping -l -m -o 200 -c 1
-1

Install via

sudo apt install httping

Alternative, if httping is not available, of course it is possible with curl to print the status code of a request only.

$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n"
200
$ curl -s -o /dev/null -w "%{http_code}\n"
301

Ping only understands hostnames and ip-addresses. So in your example it should be:

ping 

But even this isn't sure to work, because icmp packets (which ping is a part of) might be blocked in router or firewalls along the way to the destination.