GROUPINFO(8) BSD System Manager's Manual GROUPINFO(8)NAME
groupinfo -- displays group information
SYNOPSIS
groupinfo [-ev] group
DESCRIPTION
The groupinfo utility retrieves the group information from the system. The groupinfo utility is only available if built with EXTENSIONS.
See group(8) for more information.
The following command line options are recognised:
-e Return 0 if the group exists, and non-zero if the group does not exist, on the system. No information is displayed. This form of
the command is useful for scripts which need to check whether a particular group name or gid is already in use on the system.
-v Perform any actions in a verbose manner.
The group argument may either be a group's name, or a gid.
EXIT STATUS
The groupinfo utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
FILES
/etc/usermgmt.conf
SEE ALSO passwd(5), group(8)HISTORY
The groupinfo utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the addnerd package by the same author.
AUTHORS
The groupinfo utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>.
BSD November 7, 2005 BSD
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GROUPADD(8) BSD System Manager's Manual GROUPADD(8)NAME
groupadd -- add a group to the system
SYNOPSIS
groupadd [-ov] [-g gid] [-r lowgid..highgid] group
DESCRIPTION
The groupadd utility adds a group to the system. See group(8) for more information about EXTENSIONS. The options are as follows:
-g gid Give the numeric group identifier to be used for the new group.
-o Allow the new group to have a gid which is already in use for another group.
-r lowgid..highgid
Set the low and high bounds of a gid range for new groups. A new group can only be created if there are gids which can be assigned
inside the range. This option is included if built with EXTENSIONS.
-v Enable verbose mode - explain the commands as they are executed. This option is included if built with EXTENSIONS.
EXIT STATUS
The groupadd utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.
SEE ALSO group(5), group(8), user(8)HISTORY
The groupadd utility first appeared in NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the addnerd package by the same author.
AUTHORS
The groupadd utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks <agc@NetBSD.org>.
BSD November 7, 2005 BSD
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I want to search for the line with the group name and add the user into the group. The file format is the same as /etc/group
The code i wrote is
egrep "^$newGID" $group >/dev/null
FS=":"
oldData=awk -F: '{print $3}'
newData= "$oldData,$newUser"
sed -n $4/$newData $group
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Hi,
I need to search for the line with the particular group name and add the user into the group. The file format is the same as /etc/group
The code i wrote is
egrep "^$newGID" $group >/dev/null
FS=":"
oldData=awk -F: '{print $3}'
newData= "$oldData,$newUser"
sed -n $4/$newData $group... (1 Reply)
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I'm pulling my hair now 'coz I'm so dumb to produce this requirement.
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The rules are
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Hi,
I need to do some section/group sorting. At the moment, I get around it by grep group by group and then re-directing to the same 'final' output file.
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