How to correctly do the aliasing for whois

Question

I'm trying to get this alias to work.

alias awhois='whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v $1"'

But bash doesn't give the same output.

# awhois 8.8.8.8
Error: no ASN or IP match on line 1.
AS      | IP               | AS Name
15169   | 8.8.8.8          | GOOGLE - Google LLC, US

# whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v 8.8.8.8"
AS      | IP               | BGP Prefix          | CC | Registry | Allocated  | AS Name
15169   | 8.8.8.8          | 8.8.8.0/24          | US | arin     | 1992-12-01 | GOOGLE - Google LLC, US

How can I make this works? Thanks.

Answer 1

Aliases don't recognize positional parameters. Use a function instead.

awhois()
{
  whois -h whois.cymru.com " -v $1"
}