ypmatch
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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NAME
ypmatch - print the values of one or more keys from a NIS map
SYNOPSIS
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(8).
- -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),
ypset(8),
ypwhich(1)
AUTHOR
ypmatch
is part of the
yp-tools
package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <
kukuk@linux-nis.org>.