groupinfo —
displays group information
The groupinfo utility retrieves the group information
from the system. The groupinfo utility is only
available if built with EXTENSIONS. See
group(8) for more information.
The following command line options are recognised:
-e
- Return 0 if the group exists, and non-zero if the group does not exist, on
the system. No information is displayed. This form of the command is
useful for scripts which need to check whether a particular group name or
gid is already in use on the system.
-v
- Perform any actions in a verbose manner.
The group argument may either be a group's
name, or a gid.
The groupinfo utility exits 0 on success,
and >0 if an error occurs.
The groupinfo utility first appeared in
NetBSD 1.5. It is based on the
addnerd package by the same author.
The groupinfo utility was written by
Alistair G. Crooks ⟨agc@NetBSD.org⟩.