> > On Thursday 04 March 2004 12:37, Colin Watson wrote: > [...] > > > I learn something new every hour! Never heard of getent before. > > > (Though in this instance 'cat /etc/passwd | grep > > > ^whatever-my-user-name-is' is only one character longer). > > > > There's a useless use of cat award in there. :) > > doh! > Pity I forget something else every minute! > But thanks for the nomination. The award will be a consolation to me in > my dotage... >
I always thought the whole point of using unix/linux was to see how may extraneous pipes you can put into one command? ;) Also, I had never heard of getent either. I played with it a bit and half expected to see getent as a shell script to grep instead of the binary file which it is. Interesting command. Ben -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
