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. Where database is one of
    aliases, ethers, group, hosts, netgroup, networks, passwd, protocols,
    rpc, services or shadow.

AUTHOR
    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.