GROUPINFO(8)            OpenBSD System Manager's Manual           GROUPINFO(8)

NAME
     groupinfo - displays group information

SYNOPSIS
     groupinfo [-ev] group

DESCRIPTION
     The groupinfo utility retrieves the group information from the system.

     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 if the group name or gid exists, and non-
     zero if it does not.

FILES
     /etc/usermgmt.conf

SEE ALSO
     passwd(5)

HISTORY
     The groupinfo utility first appeared in OpenBSD 2.7.

AUTHORS
     The groupinfo utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks (agc@netbsd.org).

OpenBSD 3.0                    November 30, 1999                             1
