GETENT

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: July 2007
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NAME

getent - get entries from administrative database

SYNOPSIS

getent database [key ...]

DESCRIPTION

The getent program gathers entries from the specified administrative database using the specified search keys. database is one of ahosts, ahostsv4, ahostsv6, aliases, ethers, group, hosts, netgroup, networks, passwd, protocols, rpc, services or shadow.

EXIT STATUS

0: Success; the requested entries were found.
1: Wrong number of or invalid arguments.
2: One or more of the requested entries could not be found.
3: Unsupported operation.

AUTHOR

getent is written by Thorsten Kukuk for the GNU C Library.

This man page is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, updated by Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> for GNU C Library 2.2.2 getent changes.