Unexepcted behavior from read and cat

[Jonathan McKeown]

On Monday 12 May 2008 20:59, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> I created a small list of IPs that I wanted to do digs on (because I'm lazy
> and don't want to do them one at a time.)
[snip]
> WTF?  Why do these utilities, which usually read all the lines in a file
> now only work once when run through dig?  Is there a way to feed dig a list
> of IPs and have it return each and every one of them?
>
> I tried dig +short -x -f iplist, but that returns nothing at all.
>
> 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?

The comedy solution:

lam -s '-x ' trydata | xargs dig +short

Any other ways to do this?

Jonathan