November 7, 2005 GROUPINFO 8

### NAME

groupinfo - displays group information

### SYNOPSIS

groupinfo [-ev] group

### DESCRIPTION

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.

### EXIT STATUS

### FILES

```/etc/usermgmt.conf`

### SEE ALSO

passwd(5), group(8)

### HISTORY

The groupinfo utility first appeared in NetBSD1.5. It is based on the addnerd package by the same author.

### AUTHORS

The groupinfo utility was written by Alistair G. Crooks
<agc@NetBSD.org>.