Usage: whois [OPTION]... OBJECT...
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-h HOST, --host HOST connect to server HOST
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-p PORT, --port PORT connect to PORT
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-H hide legal disclaimers
--verbose explain what is being done
--help display this help and exit
--version output version information and exit
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These flags are supported by whois.ripe.net and some RIPE-like servers:
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-l find the one level less specific match
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-L find all levels less specific matches
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-m find all one level more specific matches
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-M find all levels of more specific matches
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-c find the smallest match containing a mnt-irt attribute
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-x exact match
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-b return brief IP address ranges with abuse contact
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-B turn off object filtering (show email addresses)
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-G turn off grouping of associated objects
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-d return DNS reverse delegation objects too
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-i ATTR[,ATTR]... do an inverse look-up for specified ATTRibutes
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-T TYPE[,TYPE]... only look for objects of TYPE
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-K only primary keys are returned
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-r turn off recursive look-ups for contact information
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-R force to show local copy of the domain object even
if it contains referral
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-a also search all the mirrored databases
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-s SOURCE[,SOURCE]... search the database mirrored from SOURCE
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-g SOURCE:FIRST-LAST find updates from SOURCE from serial FIRST to LAST
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-t TYPE request template for object of TYPE
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-v TYPE request verbose template for object of TYPE
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-q [version|sources|types] query specified server info