1GETENT(1)                   General Commands Manual                  GETENT(1)
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6       getent - get entries from administrative database
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9       ggeetteenntt database [key ...]
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12       The ggeetteenntt program gathers entries from the specified administrative
13       database using the specified search keys.  database is one of ahosts,
14       ahostsv4, ahostsv6, aliases, ethers, group, hosts, netgroup, networks,
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18       0      Success; the requested entries were found.
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27       getent is written by Thorsten Kukuk for the GNU C Library.
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29       This man page is written by Joel Klecker <espy@debian.org> for the
30       Debian GNU/Linux system, updated by Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
31       for GNU C Library 2.2.2 getent changes.
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423rd Berkeley Distribution          July 2007                         GETENT(1)
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