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> make dig’s output a little more friendly. If I were better at C programming, I might try to write a dig pull request that adds a +human flag to dig that formats the long form output in a more structured and readable way, maybe something like this:
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Okay, fair enough.
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> One quick note on dig: newer versions of dig do have a +yaml output format which feels a little clearer to me, though it’s too verbose for my taste (a pretty simple DNS response doesn’t fit on my screen)
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Man, that is like the opposite approach to what you want. If YAML output is easier to read, that’s incidental; that’s intended to be machine-readable, a stable output format.
> > > make dig’s output a little more friendly. If I were better at C programming, I might try to write a dig pull request that adds a +human flag to dig that formats the long form output in a more structured and readable way, maybe something like this: > >
Okay, fair enough.
> > > One quick note on dig: newer versions of dig do have a +yaml output format which feels a little clearer to me, though it’s too verbose for my taste (a pretty simple DNS response doesn’t fit on my screen) > >
Man, that is like the opposite approach to what you want. If YAML output is easier to read, that’s incidental; that’s intended to be machine-readable, a stable output format.
just use host or dog.
❯ host www.google.com www.google.com has address 142.250.204.4 www.google.com has IPv6 address 2404:6800:4006:814::2004❯ dog reddit.com TXT TXT reddit.com. 1h00m00s "614ac4be-8664-4cea-8e29-f84d08ad875c" TXT reddit.com. 1h00m00s "MS=ms71041902" ...