On Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 01:13:09AM -0700, Linda Walsh wrote: > > getent passwd 'Domain Administrator' > Domain Administrator:x:500:18:Domain Admin accnt:/home/root:/bin/bash
getent(1) is fine where it's available, but it's not a standard tool, so you can only use it on systems that have it. If one's hypothetical tilde-expanding script only needs to run on recent Linux systems, for example, then getent is a good approach.
