Automator script to do a whois lookup

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:

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:

(
  ""
)

Any suggestions?

Answer 1

Make sure to pass the input to the shell script as arguments and not to STDIN:

For showing the results, you could drag Run AppleScript to the bottom of the pane and use the following commands:

on run {input, parameters}
    set msg to ""
    repeat with itm in input
        set msg to msg & "
" & itm
    end repeat
    tell application "Finder"
        display alert "Whois" message msg
    end tell
end run