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Re: [PATCH] getent.1: Document options.
- From: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com>
- To: "Robin H. Johnson" <robbat2 at gentoo dot org>
- Cc: mtk dot manpages at gmail dot com, linux-man at vger dot kernel dot org, libc-alpha at sourceware dot org, Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin at redhat dot com>, Jay Fenlason <fenlason at redhat dot com>, Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: Sat, 18 Apr 2015 14:50:48 +0200
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] getent.1: Document options.
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On 04/17/2015 08:53 AM, Robin H. Johnson wrote:
> The options to getent are now documented, after being around for nearly
> a decade without changes.
Thanks, Robin! Applied.
Cheers,
Michael
> Signed-off-by: Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
> CC: Nalin Dahyabhai <nalin@redhat.com> (original -s {service} option)
> CC: Jay Fenlason <fenlason@redhat.com> (-s {database}:{service} addition)
> CC: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> (IDN flags)
> ---
> man1/getent.1 | 22 ++++++++++++++++++++--
> 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/man1/getent.1 b/man1/getent.1
> index a15d880..16f2668 100644
> --- a/man1/getent.1
> +++ b/man1/getent.1
> @@ -1,4 +1,5 @@
> .\" Copyright (c) 2011, Mark R. Bannister <cambridge@users.sourceforge.net>
> +.\" Copyright (c) 2015, Robin H. Johnson <robbat2@gentoo.org>
> .\"
> .\" %%%LICENSE_START(GPLv2+_DOC_FULL)
> .\" This is free documentation; you can redistribute it and/or
> @@ -25,8 +26,7 @@
> .SH NAME
> getent \- get entries from Name Service Switch libraries
> .SH SYNOPSIS
> -.B "getent
> -.IR database " [" key " ...]"
> +.BR getent\ [\fIoption\fP]...\ \fIdatabase\fP\ \fIkey\fP...
> .SH DESCRIPTION
> The
> .B getent
> @@ -342,6 +342,24 @@ in succession to
> .BR getspnam (3)
> and display the result.
> .RE
> +.SH OPTIONS
> +.TP
> +.BR \-s\ \fIservice\fP\ \-\-service\ \fIservice\fP
> +.\" commit 9d0881aa76b399e6a025c5cf44bebe2ae0efa8af (glibc)
> +Override all databases with the specified service. (Since glibc-2.2.5.)
> +.TP
> +.BR \-s\ \fIdatabase\fP:\fIservice\fP\ \-\-service\ \fIdatabase\fP:\fIservice\fP
> +.\" commit b4f6f4be85d32b9c03361c38376e36f08100e3e8 (glibc)
> +Override only specified databases with the specified service. The option may be used
> +multiple times, but only the last service for each database will be used. (Since glibc-2.4.)
> +.TP
> +.BR \-i\ \-\-no\-idn
> +.\" commit a160f8d808cf8020b13bd0ef4a9eaf3c11f964ad (glibc)
> +Disables IDN encoding in lookups for
> +.BR ahosts
> +/
> +.BR getaddrinfo (3)
> +(Since glibc-2.13.)
> .SH EXIT STATUS
> One of the following exit values can be returned by
> .BR getent :
>
--
Michael Kerrisk
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