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Anyone already do this?

Ed

Quote:> I am looking for a utility (cuz i don't feel like writing it) that
> can export an nis+ table (schema and/or data). Preferably it would
> just export the table to a bourne shell script that can be used to
> rebuild the table.
> Anyone already do this?
> Ed

/usr/lib/nis/nisaddent -d "table" > file

This would dump the said table into a file in the format this data
would be if you used plain files instead of NIS+ (e.g. dumping
"group.org_dir" table would produce a file in the format of
/etc/group)

You can import the data back into NIS+ tables with the same nisaddent:

/usr/lib/nis/nisaddent "table" < file

Other utilities that you migth be useful in inputing or outputing the
data are  are nispopulate, nisbackup, nisrestore, nistbladm, nismatch,
and niscat, etc

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Akop Pogosian

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Quote:>I am looking for a utility (cuz i don't feel like writing it) that
>can export an nis+ table (schema and/or data). Preferably it would
>just export the table to a bourne shell script that can be used to
>rebuild the table.

  - Logan
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"In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive,
 we must first lose hope in everything that deceives."

                                          Georges Bernanos

-ability to easily clone a table (columes/perms/owners/optionally data)

-ability to easily add/remove a column to/from a table

All I care about is that the export output is text and structured.
Maybe just an (niscat -o) optionally jammed together with an (niscat).
Problem with that is a script is needed for the import.
It shouldn't be too hard to put together the script, I was just hoping
someone has already done it...

While I'm at it, is there a cli way to retrieve a single cell as opposed
to the whole record (nismatch)? I get tired of the awk'ing expecially
since not all my tables can use the same delimiter.

Thanks,
Ed