On Tue, Apr 09, 2013 at 11:01:49AM -0600, Bob Proulx wrote: > I am pretty sure that getent is not available on HP-UX for an example > of a classic legacy Unix system.
I can confirm this up through 11.11: imadev:~$ uname -a HP-UX imadev B.10.20 A 9000/785 2008897791 two-user license imadev:~$ type getent bash-4.3: type: getent: not found # uname -a HP-UX megview1 B.11.11 U 9000/785 532302039 unlimited-user license # type getent getent not found. > For example HP-UX 10.20 (the > best release ever) is still in use and it is ancient. :-) Hah. Anyway, Linda specifically asked about Linux systems that had it, which is why I was focusing mostly on those.