> On 21 Oct 2014, at 22:46 , Jim Young <jyo...@gsu.edu> wrote: > > On 10/22/14 12:08 AM, "LuKreme" <krem...@kreme.com> wrote: > >>> On 21 Oct 2014, at 19:20 , Dave Knight <d...@knig.ht> wrote: >>> >>> $ dig +noall +answer dave.knig.ht in a | egrep 'IN\tA\t' | cut -f6 >>> 216.235.14.46 >> >> Interesting. This works for me: >> >> dig +noall +answer home.kreme.com in a | egrep '\tA' | cut -f5 >> >> but on your example, it requires -f6 >> >> And yet, the outputs appear to have the same number of fields. >> >> $ dig +noall +answer www.kreme.com in a >> www.kreme.com. 21139 IN CNAME cerebus.kreme.com. >> cerebus.kreme.com. 21141 IN A 23.24.150.141 >> $ dig +noall +answer dave.knig.ht in a >> dave.knig.ht. 13916 IN CNAME sb.sanxion.org. >> sb.sanxion.org. 222 IN A 216.235.14.46 >> >> Very odd. > > Subtle formatting difference for human consumption. There are a variable > number of ASCII TABs inserted to visually align fields.
Yeah, I saw the extra space after 222, but did not check for a second tab following sb.sanxion.org. > This is where output generated for human consumption can be tricky to > parse. That’s why I like dig +short -- BART BUCKS ARE NOT LEGAL TENDER Bart chalkboard Ep. 8F06 _______________________________________________ Please visit https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users to unsubscribe from this list bind-users mailing list bind-users@lists.isc.org https://lists.isc.org/mailman/listinfo/bind-users
