MEMBERS(1)

💖 MEMBERS(1) — the girlies' guide to group members 💖

okay bestie, so this is a page from the General Commands Manual, section 1. Section 1 is where all the user commands live, iykyk. Let's get into it 💅

🌸 NAME 🌸

members — she outputs members of a group. that's it, that's the whole job, and she does it flawlessly ✨

🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

members groupname

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so real talk: this manual page is just a lil quick rundown of the members commands. it was written specifically for the Debian GNU/Linux distribution, so if you're on Debian you're literally in the right place, no cap 🫶

here's the tea on what members actually does: it's a program that sends a space-separated list of secondary member names straight to its standard output. that's her whole vibe. space-separated, secondary members, standard output. iconic 💖

✨ OPTIONS ✨

these programs follow the usual GNU command line syntax, meaning the long options start with two dashes (-). summary of options is right down here, bestie 👇

• -a, --all — shows all the group members on one line. this is the default, so if you just run it with nothing, this is the energy you get 🌈
• -p, --primary — shows only the primary group members. primary girlies only 👑
• -s, --secondary — shows only the secondary group members. the supporting cast, but make it slay 💜
• -t, --two-lines — sends two lines to standard output. first line is the primary members, second line is the secondary members. NOTE: this always displays two lines, even if there are no members at all. like, she will still hand you two lines. she said "consistency." periodt 💅
• -h, --help — shows a summary of options. your little emergency cheat sheet 🎀

💀 DIAGNOSTICS 💀

exit status is 0 (i.e. "success") if the group was found, and 1 (i.e. "failure") if the group was not found. simple as 🍓

technically — and this is the nerdiest, most main character detail — the exit status hinges on the output of getgrnam(3) as follows: if getgrnam(3) returns a null pointer, the exit status is 1, and 0 otherwise. so yeah, it's all about that getgrnam(3) return value bestie 😭

🙈 BUGS 🙈

"I don't know of any! If you find one, please let me know!"

okay and honestly? she's humble, she's honest, and if you catch a bug you should absolutely tell her fr fr 💖

👀 SEE ALSO 👀

• groups(1)

💜 AUTHOR 💜

this manual page was written by Jim Lynch <jim@laney.edu>, for the Debian GNU/Linux system (but may be used by others). shoutout Jim, absolute legend for the docs 🌟

and that's the whole page bestie, we ate and left no crumbs 🎀 this was section 1 of the General Commands Manual — MEMBERS(1) — so go forth, check those group members, and stay iconic 💅✨