debian man page for cwhois

CWHOIS(3)							   whois client 							 CWHOIS(3)

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).

1.10								    2006-11-03								 CWHOIS(3)