Response from remote host

[Finn Drablos]

A short and simple (?) question:
How do I test, from within a shell script, whether a remote
machine is responding to network requests or not?

I guess that I am looking for something like ping, but
according to the man page, ping should not be used in
scripts ...

Regards,

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