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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Bourne script: Check for root and oracle user Post 302239969 by totziens on Wednesday 24th of September 2008 11:11:47 PM
Old 09-25-2008
Thanks, otheus.

I tried the following commands and the results are as follows. It's not really the command "id" cannot be found but it's the "-u" option giving problem (except when I used /usr/local/bin/). It's no longer a problem for me in the script using the method I mentioned in the previous post but I am just curious about "id -u" - my colleague also complains about facing similar problem with "id" command...so he avoids using it in our machines.

Command: id -u
Result:
id: illegal option -- u
Usage: id [-ap] [user]

Command: /usr/bin/id -u
Result:
/usr/bin/id: illegal option -- u
Usage: id [-ap] [user]

Command: /usr/local/bin/id -u
Result:
/usr/local/bin/id: Command not found.


Any idea what could have caused "-u" option not being recognised?
 

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