sean finney on 13 Nov 2011 04:58:07 -0800


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Re: [PLUG] Finding a /etc/group entry containing a user list


On Sat, Nov 12, 2011 at 02:54:13PM -0500, JP Vossen wrote:
> But the original point is, I don't know what group to use.  I'm
> looking for the group that already contains the most members of my
> list, so that a) I don't need to create a new group and b) I need to
> add the fewest users to that group to that it contains everyone from
> my list.

something like this?

for group in `groups $users | cut -d: -f2-`; do
	echo $group
done | sort | uniq -c | sort -n


:)

	sean
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