[CALUG] /etc/hosts not used?

[Jeremy Portzer]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Chris Edillon wrote:

>   the getent command will do what you want, it's a program which
> does various get* routine lookups:
> 
> getent hosts foo.bar.com
> getent passwd username
> getent group groupname
> etc.

Awesome Chris.  That's exactly what we're all looking for.

getent is provided by the glibc package on my system, so that indicates 
this ought to be a widespread command available on almost every system, 
which fits the bill for a portable shell script.

Thanks.

Jeremy Portzer
 
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