NAME
    jwhois - client for the whois service

SYNOPSIS
    jwhois [ OPTIONS ]... [ QUERY ]

DESCRIPTION
    jwhois searches Whois servers for the object on the command line.

    The host to query is taken from a global configuration file, a configu-
    ration file specified on the command line, or selected directly on the
    command line.

OPTIONS
    --version
    display version, authors and licensing information.

    --help display a short help text.

    -c FILE --config=FILE
    uses FILE as a configuration file instead of the default.

    -h HOST --host=HOST
    overrides  any hosts in the configuration file and queries HOST
    directly.

    -p PORT --port=PORT
    specifies a port number to use when querying a HOST.

    -f --force-lookup
    forces a query to be made to a host even if a current object is
    available from the cache.

    -v --verbose
    outputs verbose debugging information while running (use this
    before sending a bugreport to ensure that it's indeed a bug and
    not a misconfiguration). You can increase the verbosity by giv-
    ing several verbose commands to jwhois, such as -vv.

    -n --no-redirect
    disable features that redirect queries  from one server to
    another.

    -s --no-whoisservers
    disable the built-in support for whois-servers.net.

    -a --raw
    send query verbatim to receiving hosts instead of rewriting them
    according to the configuration.

    -i --display-redirections
    display every step in a redirection (default is to display only
    the last answer).

    -d --disable-cache
    completely disable both reading and writing to cache.

    -r --rwhois
    force the query to use the rwhois protocoll instead of HTTP or
    whois.

    --rwhois-display=DISPLAY
    asks receiving rwhois servers to display the results in the DIS-
    PLAY display instead of the default dump display.

    --rwhois-limit=LIMIT
    asks receiving rwhois servers to limit their responses to LIMIT
    matches.

 RIPE EXTENSIONS
    To use the options specified in RIPE Document 157, you need to change
    the format of the query slightly. If you were to search for all
    entries in the RIPE database which lists the admin-c, tech-c or zone-c
    as CO19-RIPE, you could use the following command syntax:

    jwhois -h whois.ripe.net -- -i admin-c,tech-c,zone-c CO19-RIPE

    -- is used to separate the RIPE options from the jwhois options.

SEE ALSO
   whois(1)