Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:17:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson <dnelson@allantgroup.com> To: Christian Weisgerber <naddy@mips.inka.de> Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whois(1) usage Message-ID: <20040416021723.GL28745@dan.emsphone.com> In-Reply-To: <c5n3on$2hf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de> References: <c5n3on$2hf$1@kemoauc.mips.inka.de>
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In the last episode (Apr 15), Christian Weisgerber said: > >From <URL:http://www.sixxs.net/faq/account/?faq=6bonehandle>: > > | * First, read about the person template: > | whois -h whois.6bone.net -v person. > > FreeBSD's whois(1) does not have a -v flag. I checked a Mandrake > Linux system, and there -v is supported and obviously produces the > expected result. > > So, how do I execute the query above with our whois command? whois -h whois.6bone.net -- "-v person" works for me, on both FreeBSD and Linux whois. -v is not really a whois option at all; it's a remote server flag. I assume there are others, and the above syntax is the only way to pass all possible flags (Linux's syntax only works with flags that the whois binary itself doesn't use). -- Dan Nelson dnelson@allantgroup.com
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