Re: Dig output not piping to xargs

[Alive <alive4ever@live.com>]

On 10/26/2014 4:26 AM, Marko Božiković wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> 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.
> 
> Thank you,

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)

```

I think it's a good idea to package `unbound` as an alternative to
`bind` for dns related tasks.

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