brip 1.01 review

brip is a Bulk / stream Resolution of IP addresses and hostnames. Here are some key features of "brip": · Resolve IP addresses an

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brip is a Bulk / stream Resolution of IP addresses and hostnames.

Here are some key features of "brip":
Resolve IP addresses and/or hostnames in bulk
Can read from STDIN, commandline or file
Can be used for quick commandline lookups, like host, dig and nslookup
Automatically detects which of the three is on your system, and uses whichever is available, in that order of preference

Usage: brip [ options ] [ { hostname | ipaddress } ]

Options:

-r Output is in 'hostnameipaddress' format, the reverse of the default output (/etc/hosts format)

-s Output is in the form of a sed script, which can be used for bulk substitution within existing data (such as a log file).

If a hostname cannot be resolved in this mode, it is repeated back into the output, but in uppercase. This is done to offer some (possible) distinction for unresolvable hostnames without changing their value.

-F separator
Used in conjunction with the -s option, to assure proper delineation of hostnames or ipaddresses in data to which the sed substitutions are being applied

-R resolver
Specify a specific resolver, among host, dig or nslookup.

-v Run in verbose mode

-f inputfile
Read data from a file. Any trailing tokens on the commandline will be looked up along with the contents of the file.

ipaddress, hostname...
Any number of IP addresses and/or hostnames can appear on the commandline, and will be forward or reverse resolved as appropriate. If none are specified on the commandline, they will be read from STDIN.