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).