Add "Serch Domain" in Network Preferences with Terminal command

Hi!
I'd like to add a Search Domain in the Network setting using a Terminal command. With this I can use ARD3 to end the command to several machines at once wihtout having to go to each machine and do it in the GUI.
I know you can write to preference files with the Terminal, but I don't know what to type.
Please help.
Thanks in advance!

Hey Camelot,
   You're getting a lot of mileage out of that new command. Kudos for finding it.
Hi Martin,
   Naturally Camelot's command is the most elegant solution. The Systems Preferences settings for the network are stored in the /Library/Preferences/SystemConfiguration/preferences.plist property list file but I think that's only consulted at boot. The search path is too deep to be comfortably manipulated by the "defaults" command but we could probably do it with sed if that would help.
   When the network comes up, the above information is combined with data from DHCP to create the /var/run/resolv.conf file, which is linked to by the classic /etc/resolv.conf file. That has a "search" field that holds the search domains in a whitespace delimited list. I don't know how often that's consulted but that's the final source of the information.
Gary
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   Life would be so much easier if we could just look at the
   source code.
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