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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
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14 ahostsv4, ahostsv6, aliases, ethers, group, hosts, netgroup, networks,
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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
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31 for GNU C Library 2.2.2 getent changes.
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