CWHOIS(3) 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

-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!

AUTHOR

CWHOIS was written by Timur Bakeyev <[email protected]>.

This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <[email protected]>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).