cwhois(3)

Usage

cwhois [-a|-F|-L|-m|-M|-r|-S|-R] [-h hostname] [-s source[[,source]...]] [-T type[[,type]...]] [-i attr[[,attr]...]] keys

cwhois [-t type]

cwhois [-v type]

Overview

cwhois Simple whois client that gives you back output, compatiable with RIPE DB v2, if you'll ask it to.

Options

-a: search all databases

-F: fast raw output

-L: find all Less specific matches

-m: find first level more specific matches

-M: find all More specific matches

-r: turn off recursive lookups

-S: tell server to leave out 'syntactic sugar'

-R: force to show local copy of the domain object even if it contains referral

-h hostname: search alternate server

-s source[[,source]...]: search databases with source 'source'

-T type[[,type]...]: only look for objects of type 'type'

-i attr[[,attr]...]: do an inverse lookup for specified attributes

-t type: requests template for object of type 'type'

-v type: requests verbose template for object of type 'type'

Hint

Please note that most of these flags are NOT understood by non RIPE whois servers!

Releases

Unchanged in 9 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny).

5.0–13