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.TH ypmatch 1 "April 2010" "YP Tools 3.3"
.SH NAME
ypmatch - print the values of one or more keys from a NIS map
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B ypmatch
[
.BR \-kt
]
[
.BI \-d " domain"
]
.I key ... mapname
.br
.B ypmatch
.B \-x
.LP
.SH DESCRIPTION
.B 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.
.SH OPTIONS
.TP
.BI \-d " domain"
Specify a domain other than the default domain as returned by
.BR domainname (8).
.TP
.B \-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.
.TP
.B \-t
This option inhibits map nickname translation.
.TP
.B \-x
Display the map nickname translation table.
.SH FILES
.TP
.B /var/yp/nicknames
map nickname translation table.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
.BR domainname (8),
.BR nicknames (5),
.BR ypbind (8),
.BR ypcat (1),
.BR yppoll (8),
.BR ypserv (8),
.BR ypset (8),
.BR ypwhich (1)
.LP
.SH AUTHOR
.B ypmatch
is part of the
.B yp-tools
package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>.