Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 23:15:46 +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: <200805132315.46288.jonathan%2Bfreebsd-questions@hst.org.za> In-Reply-To: <C44F3242.9974D%jdowdy@ncircle.com> References: <C44F3242.9974D%jdowdy@ncircle.com>
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[respecting Time's arrow] On Tuesday 13 May 2008 20:55, Johan Dowdy wrote: > > On 5/12/08 1:55 PM, "RW" <fbsd06@mlists.homeunix.com> wrote: > > > > cat iplist | xargs -n1 dig +short -x > > I think this one wins for brevity. It can be made shorter: <iplist xargs -n1 dig +short -x but it fires off multiple dig processes. Compare lam -s-x\ iplist|xargs dig +short which, even with a certain amount of cheating, is still 3 characters longer but only invokes dig once. Jonathan
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