On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 09:30:00 +1030, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2009-03-11 at 22:18 +0000, Mike -- EMAIL IGNORED wrote: >> Is there a way to get dig to return at most one line? For example (on >> FC7), : >> >> #dig +short +search +nomultiline www.ieee.org a165.g.akamai.net. >> 204.2.177.34 >> 204.2.177.41 >> >> is not exactly "nomultiline". > > I don't think nomultiline does what you think it does. I suspect, from > reading the man file, it's about individual records that have multiline > outputs, not whole query answers that do. e.g. If a single record, like > the "a165.g.akamai.net" data, had more information directly associated > with it. > > But, whatever it actually means, you could tag the following onto the > end of your command line: |head -n 1 > [...] I reread the man page, and I agree that +nomultiline is not what I want. The head suggestion won't work, because in the above example, it is the second line I want. Failing a better suggestion, I'll just have to parse the output. Perhaps I will test each line with inet_aton until I get one that works. I was hoping to avoid that. Mike. -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
