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Date:      Tue, 21 Aug 2007 11:28:06 +0200
From:      Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Cc:        Olivier Nicole <on@cs.ait.ac.th>
Subject:   Re: Get effective group id
Message-ID:  <200708211128.07123.pieter@degoeje.nl>
In-Reply-To: <200708210720.l7L7KRpU091443@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>
References:  <200708210720.l7L7KRpU091443@banyan.cs.ait.ac.th>

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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,

Pieter de Goeje



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