SYNOPSIS

       getent database [key ...]


DESCRIPTION

       The getent program gathers entries from the specified
       administrative database using the specified search keys.
       Where database is one of passwd, group, hosts, services,
       protocols, or networks.


AUTHOR

       getent is written by Thorsten Kukuk <kukuk@suse.de> for
       the GNU C Library.

       This man page is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org>








December 17, 1998              2.1                      GETENT(1)

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