From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Apr 15 19:17:29 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CC55916A4CE for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:17:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dan.emsphone.com (dan.emsphone.com [199.67.51.101]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2042543D2D for ; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 19:17:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dan@dan.emsphone.com) Received: (from dan@localhost) by dan.emsphone.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) id i3G2HORT095161; Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:17:24 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dan) Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 21:17:24 -0500 From: Dan Nelson To: Christian Weisgerber Message-ID: <20040416021723.GL28745@dan.emsphone.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-OS: FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT X-message-flag: Outlook Error User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: whois(1) usage X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2004 02:17:29 -0000 In the last episode (Apr 15), Christian Weisgerber said: > >From : > > | * 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