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List:       coreutils
Subject:    Re: [PATCH] groups,id: add -0, --null option
From:       Bernhard Voelker <mail () bernhard-voelker ! de>
Date:       2013-09-03 6:13:31
Message-ID: 52257E0B.1000206 () bernhard-voelker ! de
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On 09/02/2013 03:02 PM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
> On 09/01/2013 10:35 PM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>> 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'

Cygwin is a typical platform with whitespaces in group names, but
it seems to lack getent(1).  Well, it's not our primary target,
though.

Thanks for the advice.

Have a nice day,
Berny


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