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