NAME¶
members - outputs members of a group
SYNOPSIS¶
members groupname
DESCRIPTION¶
This manual page documents briefly the
members commands. This manual page
was written for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution.
members is a program that sends a space-separated list of secondary
member names to its standard output.
OPTIONS¶
The programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, with long options
starting with two dashes (`-'). A summary of options is included below.
- -a, --all
- Show all group members on one line. This is the default.
- -p, --primary
- Show only primary group members.
- -s, --secondary
- Show only secondary group members.
- -t, --two-lines
- Send two lines to standard output. First line is primary members, second
line is secondary members. NOTE: This always displays two lines, even if
there are no members at all.
- -h, --help
- Show summary of options.
DIAGNOSTICS¶
Exit status is 0 (i.e. "success") if the group was found, and 1 (i.e.,
"failure") if the group was not found.
Technically, the exit status hinges on the output of
getgrnam(3) as
follows: if
getgrnam(3) returns a null pointer, the exit status is 1,
and 0 otherwise.
BUGS¶
I don't know of any! If you find one, please let me know!
SEE ALSO¶
groups(1)
AUTHOR¶
This manual page was written by Jim Lynch <jim@laney.edu>, for the Debian
GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others).