| NICKNAMES(5) | File Formats Manual | NICKNAMES(5) | 
nicknames —
nicknames file, kept in
  “/var/yp/nicknames.”
The format of the file is
nickname mapone pair per line. The default installed nickname map is as follows:
A blank or incomplete nicknames file will
    affect any scripts which use nicknames for map lookup, whereas if the file
    is simply missing, the default compiled-in list will be used.
nicknames file first appeared in Solaris 2.4.
| August 28, 2003 | NetBSD 9.4 |