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/usr/sbin/makedbm [-b][-l][-s][-E][-i yp-input-file] [-o yp-output-name][-d yp-domain-name][-m yp-master-name] [-S delimiter][-D number-of-delimiters] infile outfile /usr/sbin/makedbm [-u dbmfilename]
makedbm is mainly used to generate NIS maps from text files. You do not invoke the makedbm command directly. It is called from the /var/yp/Makefile script. It generates a special entry with the key yp_last_modified, which is the date of infile (or the current time if infile is -). The entries that have keys with the prefix yp_ are interpreted by NIS server commands.
The makedbm command converts the infile to a pair of files in ndbm format (see dbm_clearerr(3C)), ...