ypmatch

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 1999
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NAME

ypmatch - print the values of one or more keys from a NIS map  

SYNOPSYS

ypmatch [ -kt ] [ -d domain ] key ... mapname
ypmatch -x

 

DESCRIPTION

ypmatch prints the values of one or more keys from the NIS database specified by mapname, which may be a map name or a map nickname.  

OPTIONS

-d domain
Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by domainname(1).
-k
Display map keys. This option is useful with maps in which the values are null or the key is not part of the value.
-t
This option inhibits map nickname translation.
-x
Display the map nickname translation table.
 

FILES

/var/yp/nicknames
map nickname translation table.
 

SEE ALSO

domainname(8), nicknames(5), ypbind(8), ypcat(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), yset(8), ypwhich(1)

 

AUTHOR

ypmatch is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.