UNIX groups in CYGWIN

Mon Jun 11 16:25:00 GMT 2012

On 06/11/2012 10:13 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:
> 2. Since Windows group names can embed spaces, the output of the "groups" shell command

'groups' is no longer a shell command, but an executable, for several
coreutils releases now.
> is unparsable in CYGWIN (scripting becomes problematic), because the space is used both
> in the group names (as obtained from Windows) and to delimit the group names in the groups'
> output:

Such a proposal should be made to upstream coreutils, as it could
possibly be of benefit to more platforms than just cygwin.
> Perhaps CYGWIN could have used a tab to separate the group names?

What's to say that 'TAB' won't be valid in a group name?
> Or list each group on an individual line?

An option to request alternative output format (whether that be
line-separated, or even NUL-byte separated) might indeed be more palatable.
-- 
Eric Blake eblake@redhat.com +1-919-301-3266
Libvirt virtualization library http://libvirt.org
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