Bruce Korb <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bob Proulx wrote: >> >> How would this relate to the existing 'getent' from glibc? There >> appears to be a lot of overlap. But getent seems to be more general. >> >> getent passwd bob >> bob:x:1000:1000:Bob Proulx,,,:/home/bob:/bin/bash > > 1. you cannot get it by user id,
Yes, you can. > 2. you must still know that the comment is the 5th field, for example > and parse the line. Thus, getent isn't any better than: > egrep '^bob:' /etc/passwd Of course it is, think of NIS, LDAP, etc. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, [EMAIL PROTECTED] SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstra�e 5, 90409 N�rnberg, Germany Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different." _______________________________________________ Bug-coreutils mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-coreutils
