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### Syntax ###

<div class="highlight irssisyntax"><pre style="\-\-cmdlen:5ch"><code><span class="synB">WHOIS</span> <span class="syn10">[<span class="syn">-</span><span class="syn09">&lt;server tag></span>]</span> <span class="syn10">[<span class="syn09">&lt;server></span>]</span> <span class="syn10">[<span class="syn09">&lt;nicks></span>]</span></code></pre></div>



### Parameters ###


| `-<server tag>`: |     The server tag the target nickname is on. |
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The remote server to query and the nicknames; if no remote server is given,
the server you are connected to will be used. If no nickname is given, you
will query yourself.

### Description ###

Displays information about users in the specified channel; you may give the
same nickname as the argument twice to also query the idle time.

If the nickname is not online, the WHOWAS command will be automatically
performed.

### Examples ###

    /WHOIS
    /WHOIS mike
    /WHOIS ircsource.irssi.org bob
    /WHOIS sarah sarah

### See also ###
[CHANNEL](/documentation/help/channel), [NAMES](/documentation/help/names), [WHO](/documentation/help/who), [WHOWAS](/documentation/help/whowas)