whois(1) usage

[Dan Nelson]

In the last episode (Apr 15), Christian Weisgerber said:
> >From <URL:http://www.sixxs.net/faq/account/?faq=6bonehandle>:
> 
> | * First, read about the person template:
> |   whois -h whois.6bone.net -v person.
> 
> FreeBSD's whois(1) does not have a -v flag.  I checked a Mandrake
> Linux system, and there -v is supported and obviously produces the
> expected result.
> 
> So, how do I execute the query above with our whois command?

whois -h whois.6bone.net -- "-v person"

works for me, on both FreeBSD and Linux whois.  -v is not really a
whois option at all; it's a remote server flag.  I assume there are
others, and the above syntax is the only way to pass all possible flags
(Linux's syntax only works with flags that the whois binary itself
doesn't use).

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	Dan Nelson
	dnelson at allantgroup.com