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),
(5),
(8),
ypcat(1),
(8),
(8),
yset(8),
ypwhich(1)
AUTHOR
ypmatch is part of the yp-tools
package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de>.