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. Have not tested nsupdate but likely to have same problem. Has anyone seen a similar problem? -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple