---
name: "cwhois"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "asused"
version: "3.72-14"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/cwhois"
---

# cwhois(3)

whois client

## NAME

CWHOIS - whois client

## SYNOPSIS

**cwhois** \[**-a**\|**-F**\|**-L**\|**-m**\|**-M**\|**-r**\|**-S**\|**-R**\] \[**-h** *hostname*\] \[**-s** *source\[\[,source\]...\]*\] \[**-T** *type\[\[,type\]...\]*\] \[**-i** *attr\[\[,attr\]...\]*\] keys

**cwhois** \[**-t** *type*\]

**cwhois** \[**-v** *type*\]

## DESCRIPTION

**cwhois** Simple whois client that gives you back output, compatiable with RIPE DB v2, if you'll ask it to.

## OPTIONS

- **-a**

  **search all databases**

- **-F**

  fast raw output

- **-L**

  find all Less specific matches

- **-m**

  find first level more specific matches

- **-M**

  find all More specific matches

- **-r**

  turn off recursive lookups

- **-S**

  tell server to leave out 'syntactic sugar'

- **-R**

  force to show local copy of the domain object even if it contains referral

- **-h hostname**

  search alternate server

- **-s source\[\[,source\]...\]**

  search databases with source 'source'

- **-T type\[\[,type\]...\]**

  only look for objects of type 'type'

- **-i attr\[\[,attr\]...\]**

  do an inverse lookup for specified attributes

- **-t type**

  requests template for object of type 'type'

- **-v type**

  requests verbose template for object of type 'type'

## HINT

Please note that most of these flags are NOT understood by non RIPE whois servers!

## SEE ALSO

**Website** \<http://www.ripe.net/tools/\>

## AUTHOR

CWHOIS was written by Timur Bakeyev \<timur@ripe.net\>.

This manual page was written by Jan Wagner \<waja@cyconet.org\>, for the Debian project (but may be used by others).