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YPMATCH(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						YPMATCH(1)

NAME
ypmatch -- print the values of one or more keys in a YP database SYNOPSIS
ypmatch [-kt] [-d domainname] key ... mapname ypmatch -x DESCRIPTION
Ypmatch prints out the values of one or more keys from the YP database specified by mapname, which may be a map name or a map nickname. The options are as follows: -d domainname Specify a domain other than the default domain. -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 Inhibit translation of map nicknames to their corresponding map names. -x Display the map nickname table. SEE ALSO
ypcat(1), yp(8) AUTHOR
Theo De Raadt BSD
December 3, 1993 BSD

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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>. YP Tools 2.7 May 1999 ypmatch(1)
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