Re: Unexepcted behavior from read and cat

On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:08:06 -0500
Paul Schmehl <pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

--On Monday, May 12, 2008 13:59:47 -0500 Paul Schmehl
<pauls@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

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?

Never mind.

This worked.

(read line; dig +short -x `echo $line`; while read line; do dig
+short -x `echo $line`; done) < iplist

I tend to use "xargs -n1" with dig e.g


cat iplist | xargs -n1 dig +short -x

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