getent
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getent is a unix command that helps a user get entry in a number of important text files called databases. The databases it searches in are: passwd, group, hosts, services, protocols, or networks.
The general syntax is:
getent database [key ...]
Thorsten Kukuk wrote the getent utility for the GNU C library
