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bug#34672: [RFC] id --numeric
From: |
Giuseppe Scrivano |
Subject: |
bug#34672: [RFC] id --numeric |
Date: |
Thu, 28 Feb 2019 11:00:03 +0100 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (gnu/linux) |
Hi Bernhard,
Bernhard Voelker <address@hidden> writes:
> Thanks for the patch.
>
> What is the use case? I mean, if one wants only the numeric numbers,
> then this is usually in a script for automatic processing, and then
> I thinks it's clearer to have uid and group/groups separated:
>
> $ id -u
> 1000
>
> $ id -g
> 100
>
> $ id -G
> 100 454 457 480 492
>
> There's even a -z option to separate by NULs instead of white space.
>
> And, when still needing all in the same output, one could filter like e.g.:
>
> $ id | sed 's/([^)]*)//g'
> uid=1000 gid=100 groups=100,454,457,480,492
>
> So I'm currently 40:60 to add it.
as I said, it doesn't really add anything. It is just an aesthetic
shortcut that I find useful when using Linux user namespaces. In that
use case the uid->username lookup doesn't make much sense.
Regards,
Giuseppe