At Thu, 11 Jul 2002 11:52:23 +1000 (EST), Matthew Palmer wrote: > On Thu, 11 Jul 2002, Simon Bryan wrote: > > I am looking for a way to pipe the members of a particular group on a RH7.2 > > system to a file. Is there such a command, or at least the list members > > command? > Something like this will work: > grep groupname /etc/group | cut -d : -f 4 | sed s/,/ / > That'll give you the group members as a space separated list. > > Won't work if groups are in NIS, LDAP, or similar.
which is why you use getent(1), not read the files directly! getent group groupname | sed 's/^.*://; y/,/ /' -- - Gus -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group - http://slug.org.au/ More Info: http://lists.slug.org.au/listinfo/slug
