redhat man page for getent

GETENT(1)						      General Commands Manual							 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.  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.

3rd Berkeley Distribution					    Match 2001								 GETENT(1)