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Old 04-08-2009
ypmatch,ypcat,NIS

Hi
I am moving from shell scripting part to network shell scripting.
Can some one give me basic idea for all network related commands like
ypmatch,ypcat,NIS etc...

Documentation wiil be highly appreciated
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Old 04-09-2009
You need to give be a bit more detail of what you are trying to achieve, there are loads of network commands (e.g. remsh, ssh, ftp, etc.) all of which have man pages.
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