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Invocation

JWHOIS uses the following command-line options:

`--version'

Print the program version and licensing information.

`--help'

Print a usage message summarizing the command-line options.

`-c FILE'

`--config=FILE'

Reads configuration from FILE instead of from the default system global configuration file.

`-h HOST'

`--host=HOST'

Overrides any specifications 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 giving 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 DISPLAY display instead of the default dump display.

`--rwhois-limit=LIMIT'

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

The query can optionally contain the character `@' followed by a host name to direct the search to that host. This works exactly like specifying the host with `--host' or `-h'.

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