NAME

niscat − display NIS+ tables and objects

SYNOPSIS

niscat [ −AhLMv ] tablename...

niscat [ −ALMP ] −o name ...

AVAILABILITY

SUNWnisu

DESCRIPTION

In the first synopsis niscat displays the contents of the NIS+ tables named by tablename. In the second synopsis, it displays the internal representation of the NIS+ objects named by name, on the standard output.

OPTIONS

−A Display the data within the table and all of the data in tables in the initial table’s concatenation path is returned. 

−h Display a header line prior to displaying the table.  The header consists of the ‘#’ (hash) character followed by the name of each column.  The column names are separated by the table separator character. 

−L Follow links. When this option is specified, if tablename or name names a LINK type object, the link is followed and the object or table named by the link is displayed. 

−M Master server only.  This option specifies that the request should be sent to the master server of the named data.  This guarantees that the most up-to-date information is seen at the possible expense of increasing the load on the master server and increasing the possibility of theNIS+ server being unavailable or busy for updates. 

−P Follow concatenation path.  This option specifies that the request should follow the concatenation path of a table if the initial search is unsuccessful.  This option is only useful when using an indexed name for name and the −o option. 

−v Display binary data directly.  This option displays columns containing binary data on the standard output.  Without this option binary data is displayed as the string ∗B∗. 

−o name Display the internal representation of the named NIS+ object(s). If name is an indexed name (see nismatch(1)) then each of the matching entry objects is displayed. 

EXAMPLES

This example displays the contents of the hosts table. 

example% niscat −h host.org_dir
# cnamenameaddrcomment
client1client1129.144.201.100Joe Smith
crunchycrunchy129.144.201.44Jane Smith
crunchysofty129.144.201.44

The string ∗NP∗ is returned in those fields where the user has insufficient access rights. 

Display the passwd.org_dir on the standard output. 

example% niscat passwd.org_dir

Display the contents of table frodo and the contents of all tables in its concatenation path. 

example% niscat −A frodo

Display the entries in the table groups.org_dir as NIS+ objects.  Note that the brackets are protected from the shell by single quotes. 

example% niscat −o ’[]groups.org_dir’

Display the table object of the passwd.org_dir table. 

example% niscat −o passwd.org_dir

The previous example displays the passwd table object and not the passwd table.  The table object include information such as the number of columns, column type, searchable or not searchable separator, access rights, and other defaults. 

Display the directory object for org_dir, which includes information such as the access rights and replica information. 

example% niscat −o org_dir

ENVIRONMENT

NIS_PATH If this variable is set, and the NIS+ table name is not fully qualified, each directory specified will be searched until the table is found (see nisdefaults(1)). 

EXIT CODES

niscat returns 0 on success and 1 on failure. 

SEE ALSO

nis(1), nismatch(1), nistbladm(1), nisdefaults(1), nis_objects(3N), nis_tables(3N)

NOTES

Columns without values in the table are displayed by two adjacent separator characters. 

SunOS 5.1/x86  —  Last change: 25 Sep 1992