NAME
ypmatch — print values of selected keys in Network Information Service map
SYNOPSIS
ypmatch
[-k]
[-t]
[-d
domain]
key
[key...]
mname
ypmatch -x
Remarks
The Network Information Service (NIS) was formerly known as Yellow Pages (yp).
Although the name has changed, the functionality of the
service remains the same.
DESCRIPTION
ypmatch
prints the values associated with one or more keys
in a Network Information Service
(NIS)
map specified by
mname.
The
mname
can be either a
mapname
or a map
nickname.
A map
nickname
is a synonym by which a
NIS
map can be referenced.
If multiple keys are specified,
the same map is searched for an occurrence of each key.
A match is made only when the case and length of a key
is the same as that stored in the database.
No pattern matching is available.
If a key is not matched, a diagnostic message is produced.
Options
ypmatch
recognizes the following command-line options:
- -k
Before printing the value associated with a key,
print the key followed by a colon
(:).
This option is useful if the keys are not part of the
values (as in a
ypservers
map), or so many keys were specified that the output could be confusing.
- -t
Inhibit the translation of a map's
nickname
to its corresponding
mapname.
For example,
ypmatch -t zippy passwd
fails because there is no map named
passwd,
while
ypmatch zippy passwd
is translated to
ypmatch zippy passwd.byname.
- -d
Specify a
domain
other than the one returned by
domainname
(see
domainname(1)).
- -x
Display the table that lists the
nickname
for each
NIS
map.
AUTHOR
ypmatch
was developed by Sun Microsystems, Inc.
