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
