Re: [PLUG] Equivalent of id for groups

[Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net>]

On Fri, Feb 05, 2010 at 06:30:00PM -0500, K.S. Bhaskar said:
> I can use the id command in a shell script to determine whether a user
> is valid, e.g.,
> 
> $ id -u auntsue
> 9999
> $ id -u xyzzy
> id: xyzzy: No such user
> 
> Is there an equivalent command to check for the validity of a group
> name?  I can't scan /etc/group because the group may be defined by
> NIS.  Ideally, it should be something that will work on Linux as well
> as UNIX flavors.

getent group xyzzy
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