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,
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
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