Hi Bernhard, Bernhard Voelker <[email protected]> writes:
> Thanks for the patch. > > What is the use case? I mean, if one wants only the numeric numbers, > then this is usually in a script for automatic processing, and then > I thinks it's clearer to have uid and group/groups separated: > > $ id -u > 1000 > > $ id -g > 100 > > $ id -G > 100 454 457 480 492 > > There's even a -z option to separate by NULs instead of white space. > > And, when still needing all in the same output, one could filter like e.g.: > > $ id | sed 's/([^)]*)//g' > uid=1000 gid=100 groups=100,454,457,480,492 > > So I'm currently 40:60 to add it. as I said, it doesn't really add anything. It is just an aesthetic shortcut that I find useful when using Linux user namespaces. In that use case the uid->username lookup doesn't make much sense. Regards, Giuseppe
