Can't execute ping from program

Question

I'm trying to execute ping command within my program. I'm working on newest Raspian on RaspBerry Pi B Model. It tells me that: /bin/sh-c: 0: Can't open ping -c 1 192.168.0.12 My code(it's not finished jet, i know that following code can have some issues):

int status;
pid_t pid;
pid = fork();
const char* commandChar = commandName.c_str();
if(pid == 0)
{
    execl(SHELL, SHELL "-c", commandChar, NULL);
    _exit(1);
}else if(pid < 0)
{
    return false;
}
commandChar = NULL;
    delete commandChar;
return true;

Ping (/bin/ping) have rwsr-xr-x permissions, so why I can't execute it and how to make it work?

Answer 1

execl expects a file path, you are giving it the file path "/bin/ping -c 192.168.0.12", which of course doesn't exist. Look at the man page for execl , you will see that the last argument is used for the arguments to the program to be run.