Name
-v
Synopsis
The manner in which the key and its value
are visually displayed in flat, sequential, text files and certain
network services, might not be directly suitable for use with
database maps. A text
-type file—for example,
/etc/hosts—might display the key on the
right and the value on the left:
123.45.67.89 here.our.domain
For such circumstances the -v
switch can be used
with the K
command to specify the column or item
that will be returned as the value when a key is matched. For
example:
Kaddr text -k1 -v0 /etc/hosts
For nisplus
, netinfo
,
user
, and other such database maps, the
-v
switch specifies the name (text) of the
value’s column.
This -v
switch specifies which column is the value
to return. If it is omitted, it defaults to 0 for the
text
type (which is indexed beginning with 0) to
the last named column for the nisplus
type, and to
the string
"members
" for
the netinfo
type. Note that the
-v
switch has a different meaning for the
ph
database-map type. See also
-k
(-k) for the
value’s column and -z
(-z) for the column delimiter.
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