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NAME

       nismatch, nisgrep - utilities for searching NIS+ tables

SYNOPSIS

       nismatch [-AchMoPv] [-s sep] key tablename

       nismatch [-AchMoPv] [-s sep] colname = key... tablename

       nismatch [-AchMoPv] [-s sep] indexedname

       nisgrep [-AchiMov] [-s sep] keypat tablename

       nisgrep [-AchiMov] [-s sep] colname = keypat... tablename

DESCRIPTION

       The utilities nismatch and nisgrep can be used to search NIS+ tables. The command  nisgrep differs from the nismatch command in its ability
       to accept regular expressions keypat for the search criteria rather than simple text matches.

       Because nisgrep uses a callback function, it is not constrained to searching only those columns that are specifically  made  searchable	at
       the time of table creation. This makes it more flexible, but slower, than nismatch.

       In  nismatch,  the  server  does the searching, whereas in nisgrep the server returns all the readable entries and then the client does the
       pattern-matching.

       In both commands, the parameter	tablename is the NIS+ name of the table to be searched. If only one key or key pattern is specified  with-
       out the column name, then it is applied searching the first column. Specific named columns can be searched by using the colname=key syntax.
       When multiple columns are searched, only entries that match in all columns are returned. This is the equivalent of a  logical  join  opera-
       tion.

       nismatch accepts an additional form of search criteria, indexedname, which is a NIS+ indexed name of the form:

       [ colname=value, ... ],tablename

OPTIONS

       The following options are supported:

       -A	 All data. Return the data within the table and all of the data in tables in the initial table's concatenation path.

       -c	 Print only a count of the number of entries that matched the search criteria.

       -h	 Display a header line before the matching entries that contains the names of the table's columns

       -i	 Ignore upper/lower case distinction during comparisons.

       -M	 Master  server only. Send the lookup to the master server of the named data. This guarantees that the most up to date information
		 is seen at the possible expense that the master server may be busy.

       -o	 Display the internal representation of the matching NIS+ object(s).

       -P	 Follow concatenation path. Specify that the lookup should follow the concatenation path of a  table  if  the  initial	search	is
		 unsuccessful.

       -s sep	 This option specifies the character to use to separate the table columns. If no character is specified, the default separator for
		 the table is used.

       -v	 Verbose. Do not suppress the output of binary data when displaying matching entries. Without this option binary data is displayed
		 as the string	*BINARY*.

EXAMPLES

       Example 1 Searching a table for a username

       This  example searches a table named  passwd in the  org_dir subdirectory of the  zotz.com. domain. It returns the entry that has the user-
       name of skippy. In this example, all the work is done on the server:

	 example% nismatch name=skippy passwd.org_dir.zotz.com.

       Example 2 Finding users using specific shells

       This example is similar to the one above, except that it uses  nisgrep to find all users in the table named  passwd that are  using  either
       ksh(1) or csh(1):

	 example% nisgrep 'shell=[ck]sh' passwd.org_dir.zotz.com.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       NIS_PATH    If  this  variable  is set, and the NIS+ table name is not fully qualified, each directory specified will be searched until the
		   table is found (see nisdefaults(1)).

EXIT STATUS

       The following exit values are returned:

       0    Successfully matches some entries.

       1    Successfully searches the table and no matches are found.

       2    An error condition occurs. An error message is also printed.

ATTRIBUTES

       See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:

       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |      ATTRIBUTE TYPE	     |	    ATTRIBUTE VALUE	   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+
       |Availability		     |SUNWnisu			   |
       +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+

SEE ALSO

       niscat(1), nisdefaults(1), nisls(1), nistbladm(1), nis_objects(3NSL), attributes(5)

DIAGNOSTICS

       No memory

	   An attempt to allocate some memory for the search failed.

       tablename is not a table

	   The object with the name tablename was not a table object.

       Can't compile regular expression

	   The regular expression in keypat was malformed.

       column not found: colname

	   The column named colname does not exist in the table named  tablename.

NOTES

       NIS+ might not be supported in future releases of the Solaris operating system. Tools to aid the migration from NIS+ to LDAP are  available
       in the current Solaris release. For more information, visit http://www.sun.com/directory/nisplus/transition.html.

SunOS 5.11							    2 Dec 2005							       nismatch(1)