CWHOIS

Section: whois client (3) Updated: 2006-11-03 Local index Up

NAME

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
-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 <timur@ripe.net>.

This manual page was written by Jan Wagner <waja@cyconet.org>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 21:44:06 GMT, April 16, 2011