[db-wg] parms for simple answer

Randy,

On 27/08/2019 09.48, Randy Bush via db-wg wrote:
> is there no parm to whois which results only in the specific answer, not
> also the org: person: and grandmother: objects?  i want it irrespective
> of object type i am looking up.
> 
> ```
> whois -h whois.ripe.net -r -T inetnum 147.28.0.0/16 | egrep -v '^($|%)'
> ```
> is opbject-type specific

I'm not sure what you mean, exactly what you mean, but...

The '-r' flag seems to disable related answers and is not type-specific.

You can use the '-x' flag to prevent searching for less-specific 
matches, which is the default behavior. I believe this applies for all 
hierarchical types (so at least inet6num, route6, inetnum, route, 
as-block, and domain object types).

You may want to still couple the '-x' with '-T', since you can end up 
with inetnum and route objects returned, or aut-num and as-block.

Cheers,

--
Shane