dig: single line

[Tim]

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

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