PRALIASES(1)

NAME
praliases - look up aliases in the aliases file

SYNOPSIS
praliases [-f file] [key ...]

DESCRIPTION
Praliases looks up the specified aliases in the system-wide aliases file. With no arguments, praliases prints out the entire aliases file.

When given the -f option, praliases looks up aliases in the specified file instead of the default system-wide aliases file. Note that this must be the database version created by:

    /usr/sbin/sendmail -bi -oA file

BUGS
Praliases only will only lookup aliases in the database version of the aliases file. It does not look up aliases in the raw aliases file, nor does it look in /etc/sendmail.cf for the paths to other aliases files or network-based databases such as NIS, NetInfo, or Hesiod.

FILES
/etc/aliases
    raw data for alias names
/etc/aliases.db
    data base of alias names

SEE ALSO
newaliases(1), aliases(5), sendmail(8).

HISTORY
The praliases command appeared in 4.3BSD.