On 09/01/2013 10:35 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote: > The attached patch implements the -0,--null option for groups(1) > and id(1) as discussed in > > http://bugs.gnu.org/9987 > > and > > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-coreutils/2011-11/msg00024.html > > and as mentioned on Padraig's TODO list: > > http://www.pixelbeat.org/patches/coreutils/inbox_apr_2013.html > TODO --> "group -0 to support group names with spaces etc."
Thanks for doing this! > > A nit regarding the new test: > I was reluctant to use getent(1) to get a reasonable list of users. > Is that portable on all supported platforms? > Therefore, I've just used /etc/passwd. > Now as I'm writing this, I'm sure this will fail with NIS > where a "+" entry is used. Can I use "getent passwd"? Tests are more flexible in that we can skip where not supported. This works on GNU/Linux, Solaris and FreeBSD at least: getent passwd | cut -d: -f1 So I'd try that || skip_ 'getent is not available' thanks, Pádraig.
