Hello,
On 3/6/26 00:31, raf wrote:
On Tue, Mar 03, 2026 at 11:06:47PM +0530, Abhishek Kumar
<[email protected]> wrote:
While reading the documentation, I noticed that the %G format directive did
not include a usage example. I have added a small example to improve
clarity for users.
Thanks for the patch.
I don't think it illustrates anything that isn't
already obvious. Also, it's a very contrived example
that only outputs the numeric group id all by itself.
I agree with Raf: I don't see why %G would be special compared to the other
format directives. Hence adding a separate -printf example to each of
them would more distract from the topic than help.
Is that something anyone would ever want to do?
Probably not.
Well, one never knows if someone might check on a single file.
Creativity is key, e.g.
if test "$(id -g)" != "$( find "$MYFILE" -maxdepth 0 -printf '%G' )"; then
echo "not my group"
fi
Still, I think adding an example just to %G directive is not that much of help.
Have a nice day,
Berny
