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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Output breaking when returning multiple values Post 302758489 by radoulov on Saturday 19th of January 2013 06:42:26 PM
Old 01-19-2013
Something like this should work, but it will print only the first name and IP if multiple servers are configured.
If you want them all, you should use ${mxs[@]} ${ips[@]}, instead of ${mxs[0]} ${ips[0]}.
kdialog seem to truncate the text though.

Code:
kmx() {
  mxs=( $( host -t MX "$1" | awk '{ sub(/\.$/, x, $NF); print $NF }' ) )
  ips=( $( for _mx in "${mxs[@]}"; do host "$_mx" | awk '/has address/ { print $NF }'; done ) )
  kdialog --title "KMX" --msgbox "# host -t MX $1 ${mxs[0]} ${ips[0]}"  

}

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