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
FILES
/etc/usermgmt.conf
-
SEE ALSO
passwd(5),
group(8)
HISTORY
The
groupinfo
utility first appeared in
NetBSD1.5.
It is based on the
addnerd
package by the same author.
AUTHORS
The
groupinfo
utility was written by
Alistair G. Crooks
<agc@NetBSD.org>.