Sorry to report, but it would seem the new Cygwin versions break "bind-utils 9.9.5-3 -- 9.9.6-2" ability to stdout stdin.
Tested on: CYGWIN_NT-6.1 1.7.32 - 1.7.33(0.278/5/3) 2014-10-22 10:37 x86_64 Cygwin (w2k8r2) CYGWIN_NT-6.3 1.7.32(0.274/5/3) 2014-08-13 23:06 x86_64 Cygwin (2012r2) I just can´t seem to do anything with host or dig´s output. Be well ____ $ host cygwin.org cygwin.org has address 209.132.180.131 cygwin.org mail is handled by 10 sourceware.org. $ dig cygwin.org ; <<>> DiG 9.9.5 <<>> cygwin.org ; (1 server found) ++++ ___ $ host cygwin.org | grep cygwin $ dig cygwin.org | grep ANSWER $ test=$(mktemp); host cygwin.org > $test; cat $test; rm $test $ dig | awk '/root/ {print $0}' $ echo "$(dig cygwin.org)" $ grep cygwin <<< $(host cygwin.org) -- 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