Unexepcted behavior from read and cat

[RW]

On Mon, 12 May 2008 14:08:06 -0500
Paul Schmehl <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:

> --On Monday, May 12, 2008 13:59:47 -0500 Paul Schmehl
> <pauls at utdallas.edu> wrote:
> >
> > Sure, I can edit the file and prepend +short -x to each line, but
> > by then I might as well just do them individually.
> >
> > What am I missing?
> 
> Never mind.
> 
> This worked.
> 
> (read line; dig +short -x `echo $line`; while read line; do dig
> +short -x `echo $line`; done) < iplist
> 
I tend to use "xargs -n1" with dig e.g 


cat iplist | xargs -n1 dig +short -x