PWHOIS(1)

NAME
pwhois - Perl written whois client

SYNOPSIS
        pwhois perl.com
        pwhois gnu.org
        pwhois -s police.co.il
        pwhois -c there.is.no.tld.called.foobar
        pwhois yahoo.com whois.networksolutions.com
        pwhois -T 10 funet.fi

etc etc.....

DESCRIPTION
Just invoke with a domain name, optionally with a whois server name. The -s switch attempts to strip the copyright message or disclaimer. The -c switch attempts to return an empty answer for failed searches. The -T switch takes a parameter that is used for the timeout for connection attempts.

AUTHOR
Ariel Brosh, schop@cpan.org

SEE ALSO
Net::Whois::Raw.