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
-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!
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).