Re: bind-utils output not to stdout (was: Dig output not piping to xargs)

[Corinna Vinschen <corinna-cygwin@cygwin.com>]

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On Nov 14 13:25, Brian Inglis wrote:
> Alive <alive4ever <at> live.com> writes:
> > On 10/26/2014 4:26 AM, Marko Božiković wrote:
> >> I have recently noticed that dig +short output is not being properly piped to
> >> xargs (and it used to work)
> >> Doing something like:
> >> echo aaa | xargs -I {} echo {}
> >> works fine.
> >> However:
> >> dig +short www.google.com | xargs -I {} echo {}
> >> produces no output.
> >> I'm running Cygwin x64, tried a fresh install and it didn't help. Attached is
> >> the cygcheck output. Interestingly enough, cygcheck segfaults if I run it
> from
> >> bash. I had to run it from TCC to get the output file.
> 
> > I can confirm this behavior. `dig +short` always writes it output to the >
> terminal and cannot be redirected.
> > $ dig +short google.com
> > 74.125.68.101
> > 74.125.68.138
> > 74.125.68.100
> > 74.125.68.102
> > 74.125.68.139
> > 74.125.68.113
> > $ dig +short google.com | tee dig.txt
> > $ cat dig.txt
> > (no text is shown)
> > $ dig +short google.com 2>&1 | tee dig.txt
> > $ cat dig.txt
> > (no text is shown)
> 
> All bind-utils - host, nslookup, dig - output not to stdout or stderr - can
> not be redirected, but redirection suppresses output, with current update
> 9.9.6-2 but works with previous 9.9.5-3 and current cygwin release.

WFFM with the current Cygwin release 1.7.33.


Corinna

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