[PLUG] Unix Rosetta Stone (Was: Re: Equivalent of id for groups)

[bergman@merctech.com]

In the message dated: Tue, 09 Feb 2010 22:24:56 EST,
The pithy ruminations from "K.S. Bhaskar" on 
<Re: [PLUG] Equivalent of id for groups> were:
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Ick! MIME-mail.

I guess what you meant to write was something like:


=> 
=> 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.


Are you (plural) aware of the "Unix Rosetta Stone"? It's a wonderful 
cross-platform listing of commands and common tasks. For example, it gives the 
equivalent to "getent" for 16 different OSs.

See:

	http://bhami.com/rosetta.html
	
Mark

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=> 
=> -- 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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=> > |  Stephen Gran                  | I am here by the will of the people and |
=> > |  steve@lobefin.net             | I won't leave until I get my raincoat   |
=> > |  http://www.lobefin.net/~steve | back.   -- a slogan of the anarchists   |
=> > |                                | in Richard Kadrey's "Metrophage"        |
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