ypmatch(1)

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💖 ypmatch — the yp-tools bestie that pulls values out of your NIS map 💖

okay so real talk, this is a page from the General Commands Manual, and the command is ypmatch(1). she's a little lookup queen and she's about to make your NIS life so much easier, no cap.

✨ NAME ✨

ypmatch — print the values of one or more keys from a NIS map

like... that's literally her whole job and she does it flawlessly 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

ypmatch [ -kt ] [ -d domain ] key ... mapname
ypmatch -x

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so bestie, here's the tea: ypmatch prints the values of one or more keys out of the NIS database that you point at with mapname. and mapname can be either a real map name or a map nickname — she's flexible like that, she contains multitudes ✨

💅 OPTIONS 💅

  • -d domain — wanna look in a domain that isn't the default one? say less. this picks a domain other than the default domain, and the default is whatever domainname(8) hands back.
  • -k — show the map keys. this one is genuinely so useful when the map's values are null, or when the key isn't even part of the value. lowkey a lifesaver 🙈
  • -t — this option inhibits map nickname translation. yeah. she said no more nicknames, we're going full legal name only.
  • -x — display the map nickname translation table. the whole thing. iconic.

🎀 FILES 🎀

  • /var/yp/nicknames — the map nickname translation table. that's where all the nickname lore lives 🫶

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

domainname(8), nicknames(5), ypbind(8), ypcat(1), yppoll(8), ypserv(8), ypset(8), ypwhich(1)

go read the whole friend group, they're all serving 💜

👑 AUTHOR 👑

ypmatch is part of the yp-tools package, which was written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@linux-nis.org>. giving credit where credit is due, periodt ✨

💖 mwah, that's the whole page bestie. go match some keys, you're gonna ate. 💖

this was YP Tools 4.2.3, from April 2010 — yeah she's vintage, she's a classic, and she still slays 🎀🦋⭐

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