How to emulate Unix’ getent with MacOSX’s dscl

From: http://zzamboni.org/brt/2008/01/21/how-to-emulate-unix-getent-with-macosxs-dscl/

In linux there is:

getent passwd [uid number]

With dscl, you could do something like this:

dscl . -search /Users UniqueID [uid number]

dscl . -read /Users/[username]