Automator script to do a whois lookup

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Published on 2012-09-21T13:57:59Z Indexed on 2012/09/21 15:41 UTC
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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:

Get Specified Text

xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

Run Shell Script

for x in "$@";
do whois $x; 
done

View Results

But all I get in View Results is this:

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)

Any suggestions?

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