I can't believe it's not getent.

[Mike Frysinger]

On Wednesday 28 January 2009 16:59:40 Rob Landley wrote:
> My friend Mark is working on a project called Gentoo From Scratch (faking a
> gentoo stage 1 environment by getting gentoo's portage to run on top of a
> uClibc/busybox base system), and it turns out portage needs "getent", which
> is a horrible gnu extension that ain't in SUSv4.
>
> Here's a small shell script that more or less implements it.  FYI.

why are you reimplementing the wheel ?  there is already a getent replacement 
included with uClibc.
-mike
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