man 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]

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

-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'

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

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).