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Re: [PLUG] Equivalent of id for groups
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Just checked on some UNIX systems... getent is there on a Solaris
SPARC system, but not on an AIX system or HP-UX system. Any other
suggestions? Thanks.
-- Bhaskar
On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 7:12 PM, Stephen Gran <steve@lobefin.net> wrote:
> 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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