jwhois

whois client service

Supplementary instructions

jwhois searches Whois servers for the object on the command line. The host to query is taken from a global configuration file, a configuration file specified on the command line, or selected directly on the command line.

grammar

jwhois [options]

Options

--version display version number and patch level
--help display this help
-v, --verbose verbose debug output
-c FILE, --config=FILE use FILE as configuration file
-h HOST, --host=HOST explicitly query HOST
-n, --no-redirect disable content redirection
-s, --no-whoisservers disable whois-servers.net service support
-a, --raw disable reformatting of the query
-i, --display-redirections display all redirects instead of hiding them
-p PORT, --port=PORT use port number PORT (in conjunction with HOST)
-r, --rwhois force an rwhois query to be made
--rwhois-display=DISPLAY sets the display option in rwhois queries
--rwhois-limit=LIMIT sets the maximum number of matches to return

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Example

Display specified user information:

  jwhois root

# Find root user information

Query domain name information:

[root@localhost ~]jwhoislinuxde.net
[Querying whois.verisign-grs.com]
[Redirected to whois.west263.com]
[Querying whois.west263.com]
[whois.west263.com]
Domain Name: linuxde.net          
Registry Domain id: whois protect
Registrar WHOIS Server: whois.west263.com

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