Get effective group id

Hi, From a Bourne shell script, how to get (and test) the group id of the user that is executing the script? Best regards, Olivier ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To

Re: Get effective group id

On Tuesday 21 August 2007, Olivier Nicole wrote: Hi, From a Bourne shell script, how to get (and test) the group id of the user that is executing the script? Best regards, Olivier id -g will get you the egid. if [ `id -g` -eq 1001 ]; then echo It's a hit! fi Hope this helps,

RE: Get effective group id

Hi, From a Bourne shell script, how to get (and test) the group id of the user that is executing the script? Best regards, Olivier: id -gn should give you the group name. Drop the -n if you want just the numberic id. - barry ___