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[Help index](/documentation/help)

### Syntax ###

<div class="highlight irssisyntax"><pre style="\-\-cmdlen:4ch"><code><span class="synB">PING</span> <span class="syn10">[<span class="syn09">&lt;nick></span> | <span class="syn09">&lt;channel></span> | <span class="syn">*</span>]</span></code></pre></div>



### Parameters ###

The nickname or channel to ping, you can use the asterisk '*' character to
ping every user on a channel.

### Description ###

Sends a CTCP PING request to a nickname or a channel; this is used to find
out the latency on the network.

### Examples ###

    /PING bob
    /PING #irssi

### See also ###
[CTCP](/documentation/help/ctcp), [MSG](/documentation/help/msg)