Ordinarily, praliases gathers the path to, and the name for, its aliases database files from the sendmail configuration file. There will be times, however, when you will need to print statistics from information in another aliases database file. Consider, for example, the desire to print the contents of just one of many aliases database files. In such a scenario, you might run a command such as this:

% praliases -f /etc/mail/aliases/clients