On Wednesday 25 March 2009 16:57:26 Olivier Delhomme wrote: > Le Wed, 25 Mar 2009 18:51:41 +0100, Adilson Bonanovisky disait : > > Please, how can I execute the following idea: $ su gimp & > > but really in bacground? > > I can not figure out what you want to do, but you might try > this : > > if [[ $(grep gimp /etc/passwd | cut -d':' -f1) == "gimp" ]]
if running on a glibc system, getent may be a cleaner solution. if getent passwd gimp >/dev/null ; then ... -mike
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