RE: which shell I'm using?

["Ben Yau" <byau@cardcommerce.com>]

>
> 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