Man page - cwhois(3)
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CWHOIS
NAMESYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS
HINT
SEE ALSO
AUTHOR
NAME
CWHOIS - whois client
SYNOPSIS
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 ]
DESCRIPTION
cwhois Simple whois client that gives you back output, compatiable with RIPE DB v2, if you’ll ask it to.
OPTIONS
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-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’
HINT
Please note that most of these flags are NOT understood by non RIPE whois servers!
SEE ALSO
Website <http://www.ripe.net/tools/>
AUTHOR
CWHOIS was written by Timur Bakeyev <timur@ripe.net>.
This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).