zen in #938 writes:

zen in #938 writes:
I had occasion to look at the uClibc script "getent" and felt compelled to clean out the cargo-cult programming style. I believe that this version is clearer, and I've added some minor features while I was in there:
  * usage clause, if no arguments or "--help" requested
  * original version appears to have been intending to "exit 2" on failure to match, but didn't
  * basic, probably good enough, support for ethers and netgroups
  * faster ;-) [as if that matters for this script]