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ALI(1)			     General Commands Manual			  ALI(1)

NAME
     ali - list nmh mail aliases

SYNOPSIS
     ali [-help] [-version] [-alias aliasfile] [-list | -nolist] [-user |
	  -nouser] [aliases ...]

DESCRIPTION
     ali  searches the named mail alias files for each of the given aliases.  It
     creates a list of addresses for those aliases,  and  writes  that	list  on
     standard output.  If no arguments are given, ali outputs all alias entries.

     By  default, when an alias expands to multiple addresses, the addresses are
     separated by commas and printed on as few lines as possible.  If the  -list
     switch is specified, and an address expands to multiple addresses, each ad-
     dress will appear on a separate line.

     The -user switch directs ali to perform its processing in an inverted fash-
     ion: instead of listing the addresses that each given alias expands to, ali
     will list the aliases that expand to each given address.

     The  files  specified  by	the profile entry "Aliasfile" and any additional
     alias files given by the -alias aliasfile switch will be read.  Each  alias
     is processed as described in mh-alias(5).

FILES
     Alias  files  are	looked	up in multiple locations: if the pathname is ab-
     solute or starts with "."	or ".."   it  is  accessed  directly;  otherwise
     tilde  expansion  is  done on usernames, then files are searched for in the
     user's Mail directory as specified in their profile.  If not  found  there,
     the directory "/usr/local/etc/nmh" is checked.

     $HOME/.mh_profile	 The user's profile.

PROFILE COMPONENTS
     Path:		 To determine the user's nmh directory
     Aliasfile: 	 For a default alias file

SEE ALSO
     mh-alias(5)

DEFAULTS
     aliasfile	/usr/local/etc/nmh/MailAliases
     -nolist
     -nouser

CONTEXT
     None

nmh-1.8+dev			   2013-12-05				  ALI(1)

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