On Nov 14 13:25, Brian Inglis wrote: > Alive 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 -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Maintainer cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Red Hat