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Manual Reference Pages  - GETENT (1)

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getent - get entries from administrative database

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getent database [key ...]

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

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.

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