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Commands

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-g Generate a VCG description.

-l Exclude #line constructs from code produced in y.tab.c. (Use

after debugging is complete.)

-o outfile

Write generated code to outfile instead of the default y.tab.c.

-p prefix

Change the symbol yacc uses for symbols it generates from the

default yy to prefix.

-t Compile runtime debugging code.

-v Generate y.output, a file containing diagnostics and notes

about the parsing tables.

yes

yes [strings]

yes [option]

Print the command-line arguments, separated by spaces and

followed by a newline, until killed. If no arguments are given, print

y followed by a newline until killed. Useful in scripts and in the

background; its output can be piped to a program that issues

prompts.

Options

--help

Print a help message and then exit.

--version

Print version information and then exit.

ypbind

ypbind [options]

NFS/NIS command. NIS binder process. ypbind is a daemon process

typically activated at system startup time. Its function is to remember

information that lets client processes on a single node communicate

with some ypserv process. The information ypbind remembers is

called a binding—the association of a domain name with the Internet

address of the NIS server and the port on that host at which the

ypserv process is listening for service requests. This