Removing NIS+ Single Table Entries

To remove a single entry from a table, use the -r option:

nistbladm -r indexed-name

This example removes the Manf-1 entry from the depts table:

rootmaster% nistbladm -r [Dept=Manf-1,Site=Emeryville,Name=hosteen],\
depts.doc.com.

You can specify as few column values as you wish. If NIS+ finds duplicates, it does not remove any entry and returns an error message instead. Thus, you could have removed the Manf-1 by specifying only the Site column value, as in this example:

rootmaster% nistbladm -r [Site=Emeryville],depts.doc.com.

However, you could not have removed the Sales entry by specifying only the Site column value (SanFran), because two entries have that same value (R&D and Sales):