Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 18:23:45 +0200 From: Jonathan McKeown <jonathan+freebsd-questions@hst.org.za> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unexepcted behavior from read and cat Message-ID: <200805131823.46029.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <C1DFB4E8F62B503C9A829107@utd65257.utdallas.edu> References: <C1DFB4E8F62B503C9A829107@utd65257.utdallas.edu>
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On Monday 12 May 2008 20:59, Paul Schmehl wrote: > I created a small list of IPs that I wanted to do digs on (because I'm lazy > and don't want to do them one at a time.) [snip] > WTF? Why do these utilities, which usually read all the lines in a file > now only work once when run through dig? Is there a way to feed dig a list > of IPs and have it return each and every one of them? > > I tried dig +short -x -f iplist, but that returns nothing at all. > > Sure, I can edit the file and prepend +short -x to each line, but by then I > might as well just do them individually. > > What am I missing? The comedy solution: lam -s '-x ' trydata | xargs dig +short Any other ways to do this? Jonathan
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