Usage: getent [OPTION...] database [key ...] Get entries from administrative database. -A, --no-addrconfig do not filter out unsupported IPv4/IPv6 addresses (with ahosts*) -i, --no-idn disable IDN encoding -s, --service=CONFIG Service configuration to be used -v, --verbose print getaddrinfo error details -?, --help Give this help list --usage Give a short usage message -V, --version Print program version Mandatory or optional arguments to long options are also mandatory or optional for any corresponding short options. Supported databases: ahosts ahostsv4 ahostsv6 aliases ethers group gshadow hosts initgroups netgroup networks passwd protocols rpc services shadow For bug reporting instructions, please see: .