Removing Multiple Entries From a Table

To remove multiple entries from a table, use the -R option:

nistbladm -R indexedname

As with the -r option, you can specify as few column values as you wish. Unlike the -r option, however, if NIS+ finds duplicates, it removes all of them. You can find the name of a table's column by using the niscat -o command. This example removes all entries in which the Site is SanFran:

rootmaster% nistbladm -R [Site=SanFran],depts.doc.com.

You can use the -R option to remove all the entries from a table. Simply do not specify any column values between the square brackets, as in this example:

rootmaster% nistbladm -R [],depts.doc.com.

When used with the nistbladm -R command, an empty set of square brackets is interpreted as a wildcard specifying all table rows.