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Feature proposal

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From: Gonçalo Paiva <g.n.p.amador <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-coreutils <at> gnu.org
Subject: Feature proposal
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 15:03:36 +0100

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Salutations,

This is not as much a bug report but more a feature suggestion.
In the *users* command I propose that the users has an option (since I
don't see one in --help)
that allows to see users without repetition and all *users*.
For example I have two users A and B.
When in A session since (I assume) A is in several groups it appears:
A A A A
I suggest a command line option to either show the group or the output A.
Also A and B should be an idea for some root option maybe!?
Note that these options might already exist if so I propose a more
informative --help.
Using linux mint 17.2 here.

Best regards

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From: Pádraig Brady <P <at> draigBrady.com>
To: Gonçalo Paiva <g.n.p.amador <at> gmail.com>,
 21735 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21735: users(1) --uniq --all options
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 16:54:59 +0100

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On 22/10/15 15:03, Gonçalo Paiva wrote:
> Salutations,
> 
> This is not as much a bug report but more a feature suggestion.
> In the *users* command I propose that the users has an option (since I don't see one in --help)
> that allows to see users without repetition and all *users*.
> For example I have two users A and B.
> When in A session since (I assume) A is in several groups it appears:
> A A A A
> I suggest a command line option to either show the group

$ who

> or the output A.

$ who -u | cut -f1 -d ' ' | sort -u
$ users | tr ' ' '\n' | sort -u

> Also A and B should be an idea for some root option maybe!?

$ getent passwd | cut -f1 -d:


I think the required functionality exists elsewhere.
How about we just reference the appropriate utils
in the man page, as done in the attached?

cheers,
Pádraig.

[users-see-also.patch (text/x-patch, attachment)]

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