CWHOIS − whois client
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]
cwhois Simple whois client that gives you back output, compatiable with RIPE DB v2, if you’ll ask it to.
−a |
search all databases |
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−F |
fast raw output |
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−L |
find all Less specific matches |
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−m |
find first level more specific matches |
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−M |
find all More specific matches |
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−r |
turn off recursive lookups |
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−S |
tell server to leave out ’syntactic sugar’ |
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−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’
Please note that most of these flags are NOT understood by non RIPE whois servers!
Website <http://www.ripe.net/tools/>
CWHOIS was written by Timur Bakeyev <timur AT ripe DOT net>.
This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <waja AT cyconet DOT org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).