Getent in Linux

By: జగదేశ్ on 9:28 AM

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Getent is a shortcut for get Entries. This gets the details from administrative databases. These databases can be passwd, group, hosts, ip nodes, services, protocols, ethers and network e.t.c


The General Syntax will be 


getent [group|hosts|networks|passwd|protocols|services] [keyword]

[root@vx111a ~]# getent passwd root
root:x:0:0:root:/root:/bin/bash

[root@vx111a ~]# getent group bin
bin:x:1:root,bin,daemon

[root@vx111a ~]# getent services 80
http                  80/tcp www www-http



[root@vx111a test]# getent services mail
smtp                  25/tcp mail


[root@vx111a test]# getent services domain
domain                53/tcp


Happy learning :-)