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GROUPINFO(8) |
System Manager's Manual |
GROUPINFO(8) |
NAME
groupinfo — displays group information
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:
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-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.
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-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.
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>.