Question

I’d like to take an IP address from my Terminal, right click, select Services > Whois and get the results back somehow.

This doesn’t exist so I’m wanting to create a simple Automator script to do that. But, I’m running into a few problems.

This is what I’ve done – Automator Actions:

1. Get Specified Text
   (this will be the IP address)

2. Run Shell Script
   for x in “$@” ;
   do whois $x;
   done

3. View Results

But all I get in View Results is this:

(
  ""
)

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

You must print the result, use echo.

For a single IP address, use “$@” instead of using a loop.

echo $(whois "$@")