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by komali2 3266 days ago
>whois -h whois.ripe.net DTAG-NIC

Wait, was that just a straight bash command? Is this installed on my computer?

>$ whois usage: whois [-aAbdgiIlmQrR6] [-c country-code | -h hostname] [-p port] name ...

Holy shit lol, that's neat.

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> Wait, was that just a straight bash command? Is this installed on my computer?

Welcome to 1982..1985. This command predates bash.

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc812

http://minnie.tuhs.org/cgi-bin/utree.pl?file=2.11BSD/src/ucb...