nidump(8) [opendarwin man page]

NIDUMP(8)						      System Manager's Manual							 NIDUMP(8)

NAME

       nidump - extract text or flat-file-format data from NetInfo

SYNOPSIS

       nidump [ -t ] { -r directory | format } domain

DESCRIPTION

       nidump  reads  the  specified  NetInfo domain and dumps a portion of its contents to standard output.  When a flat-file administration file
       format is specified, nidump provides output using the syntax of the corresponding flat file.  The allowed values for  format  are  aliases,
       bootparams, bootptab, exports, fstab, group, hosts, networks, passwd, printcap, protocols, rpc, and services.

       If  the	-r option is used, the first argument is interpreted as a NetInfo directory path, and its contents are dumped in a generic NetInfo
       format.

OPTIONS

       -t     Interpret the domain as a tagged domain.	For example, "trotter/network" refers to the database  tagged  "network"  on  the  machine
	      "trotter".  The machine name can be an actual name or an IP address.

       -r     Dump  the  specified  directory  in  "raw" format.  Directories are delimited by curly braces, and properties within a directory are
	      listed in the form "property = value;".  Parentheses introduce a comma-separated list of items. The special property  name  CHILDREN
	      is  used	to  hold  a  directory's children, if any are present.	Spacing and line breaks are significant only within double quotes,
	      which may be used to protect any names that might contain metacharacters.

EXAMPLES

       "nidump hosts ." dumps a hosts file from the local NetInfo domain.

       "nidump -r /locations /" dumps the /locations directory of the root domain.

       "nidump -t -r /name=users/uid=530 trotter/network" dumps the directory for the user whose UID is 530.

SEE ALSO

       niload(8), niutil(8), netinfo(5), aliases(5), bootparams(5), bootptab(5), exports(5), fstab(5), group(5), hosts(5), networks(5), passwd(5),
       printcap(5), protocols(5), rpc(5), services(5)

Apple Computer, Inc.						 December 22, 1992							 NIDUMP(8)

GETENT(1)						    BSD General Commands Manual 						 GETENT(1)

NAME

     getent -- get entries from administrative databases

SYNOPSIS

     getent database [key ...]
     getcap database [key ...]

DESCRIPTION

     The getent program retrieves and displays entries from the administrative database specified by database, using the lookup order specified in
     nsswitch.conf(5).	The display format for a given database is as per the ``traditional'' file format for that database.

     database may be one of:
	   Database	Display format
	   disktab	entry
	   ethers	address name
	   gettytab	entry
	   group	group:passwd:gid:[member[,member]...]
	   hosts	address name [alias ...]
	   netgroup	(host,user,domain) [...]
	   networks	name network [alias ...]
	   passwd	user:passwd:uid:gid:gecos:home_dir:shell
	   printcap	entry
	   protocols	name protocol [alias ...]
	   rpc		name number [alias ...]
	   services	name port/protocol [alias ...]
	   shells	/path/to/shell

     If one or more key arguments are provided, they will be looked up in database using the appropriate function.  For example, passwd supports a
     numeric UID or user name; hosts supports an IPv4 address, IPv6 address, or host name; and services supports a service name, service name/pro-
     tocol name, numeric port, or numeric port/protocol name.

     If no key is provided and database supports enumeration, all entries for database will be retrieved using the appropriate enumeration func-
     tion and printed.

     For cgetcap(3) style databases (disktab, printcap) specifying a key, lists the entry for that key, and specifying more arguments after the
     key are used as fields in that key, and only the values of the keys are returned.	For boolean keys true is returned if the key is found.	If
     a key is not found, then false is always returned.

DIAGNOSTICS

     getent exits 0 on success, 1 if there was an error in the command syntax, 2 if one of the specified key names was not found in database, or 3
     if there is no support for enumeration on database.

SEE ALSO

     cgetcap(3), disktab(5), ethers(5), gettytab(5), group(5), hosts(5), networks(5), nsswitch.conf(5), passwd(5), printcap(5), protocols(5),
     rpc(5), services(5), shells(5)

HISTORY

     A getent command appeared in NetBSD 3.0.  It was based on the command of the same name in Solaris and Linux.

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