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ali(1) General Commands Manual ali(1) NAME ali - list mail aliases (only available within the message handling system, mh) SYNOPSIS ali [ -alias aliasfile ] [ -help ] [ -[no]list ] [ -[no]normalize ] [ -user useraddr ] [ -nouser ] [ aliases ... ] DESCRIPTION The ali command searches the specified mail alias files for each of the given aliases. It creates a list of addresses for those aliases, and displays that list on the screen. FLAGS -alias aliasfile Specifies the alias file to be consulted by ali. You can specify more than one alias file, but each aliasfile must be preceded by -alias. In addition to any alias files that you specify, ali consults the system alias file /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases. You can set up an entry in your .mh_profile so that ali auto- matically consults an alias file. To do this, add the Alias- file entry to your profile. See mh_profile(4) for more in- formation. -help Prints a list of the valid options to this command. -list -nolist Prints the addresses on separate lines. If you do not spec- ify the -list option, the addresses are separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possible. -normalize -nonormalize Instructs ali to try to track down the official hostname of the address. This can be suppressed by using -nonormalize. The default is -nonormalize. -user useraddr -nouser Displays all the aliases that contain a specific name. In- stead of listing the addresses that each given alias expands to, ali lists the aliases that expand to include each given address. You must specify the complete user name that you have used in your alias file. The defaults for this command are: -alias /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases -nolist -nonormalize -nouser EXAMPLES The following example shows how the -user option can be used to list all the aliases containing the address Parker@Venus: % ali -user Parker@Venus Parker@Venus: Group, Reviewers, Badminton PROFILE COMPONENTS tab(+); l l. Path:+Location of your Mail directory. Aliasfile:+Loca- tion of your personal alias file. FILES $HOME/.mh_profile The user profile. /usr/lib/mh/MailAliases The system alias file. /etc/passwd The system password file. /etc/group The system group file. RELATED INFORMATION mh-alias(4) delim off ali(1)