[PLUG] whois command without boilerplate

[Michael Rasmussen]

This works assuming you have perl and the same whois output I do:

    whois <object to whois on> | perl -ane 'print; if (/^$/) {exit};'

As an example:
whois saunter.us | perl -ane 'print; if (/^$/) {exit};'

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       Michael Rasmussen, Portland Oregon
     Be Appropriate && Follow Your Curiosity

On 2021-08-28 13:43, 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.
> 
> I can probably write a shell script that deletes the
> trash.  Has someone else already done so?
> 
> Keith
> 
> P.S.  Henry VI, Part 2, Act IV, Scene 2:
> "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers"
> $ killall lawyers
> lawyers: no process found