[PLUG] whois command without boilerplate

Jason Barnett jason.barnett71 at gmail.com
Sat Aug 28 22:05:48 UTC 2021


Maybe not everything, but perhaps enough, try using the -H option.
>
> whois -H keithl.com



> -H      Do not display the legal disclaimers that some registries like to
> show you.


Jason

On Sat, Aug 28, 2021 at 2:42 PM Dick Steffens <dick at dicksteffens.com> wrote:

> On 8/28/21 1:43 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
> > When I type "whois keithl.com" from the command line
> > in a text terminal, I get 16 lines of useful information,
> > one not-very-useful line of ">>> Last update "... ,
> > and 37 lines of useless boilerplate legalese, scrolling
> > the useful lines off the top of a 24 line text window.
>
> Redirect the output of whois to a text file?
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Dick Steffens
>
>



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