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mkfnames -- Command Generate data base of user names /usr/bin/mkfnames [namefile ...] The script mkfnames generates a data base of users' names and addresses. It reads the contents of namefile, which contains each user's names and her e-mail address; invokes the command nptx to generate permutations of the users' names; then sorts the output of nptx and writes the sorted output onto the standard output. If no namefile is named on the command line, mkfnames reads the file /etc/passwd, and parses its contents into the form required by command nptx. mkfnames is usually used to generate the file /usr/lib/mail/fullnames, which the mail system uses to translate a person's name into her e-mail address. If more than one login account has the same part of a name (i.e., the same last name), the first login name in alphabetical order will be used. See Also commands, mail [overview], nptx, smail