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Old 02-08-2008
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hi! it's possible to test if a user exist or not? does exist something like -d for directories? i thought i could use getenv but i don't know how to use it for this purpose...

how can i verify if a variable is a number and not a generic string? i can't use regex, since i'm using bash shell Smilie

thanks
 

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GETENV(3)						     Linux Programmer's Manual							 GETENV(3)

NAME
getenv - get an environment variable SYNOPSIS
#include <stdlib.h> char *getenv(const char *name); DESCRIPTION
The getenv() function searches the environment list to find the environment variable name, and returns a pointer to the corresponding value string. RETURN VALUE
The getenv() function returns a pointer to the value in the environment, or NULL if there is no match. CONFORMING TO
SVr4, POSIX.1-2001, 4.3BSD, C89, C99. NOTES
The strings in the environment list are of the form name=value. As typically implemented, getenv() returns a pointer to a string within the environment list. The caller must take care not to modify this string, since that would change the environment of the process. The implementation of getenv() is not required to be reentrant. The string pointed to by the return value of getenv() may be statically allocated, and can be modified by a subsequent call to getenv(), putenv(3), setenv(3), or unsetenv(3). SEE ALSO
clearenv(3), putenv(3), setenv(3), unsetenv(3), environ(7) COLOPHON
This page is part of release 3.25 of the Linux man-pages project. A description of the project, and information about reporting bugs, can be found at http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/. GNU
2008-03-17 GETENV(3)
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