GETENT(1)                                                                                                              GETENT(1)



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 <espyATdebian.org> for the Debian GNU/Linux system, updated by Jakub Jelinek
       <jakubATredhat.com> for GNU C Library 2.2.2 getent changes.










3rd Berkeley Distribution                                   July 2007                                                  GETENT(1)