Subject: bug#9987: closed (Re: bug#9987: [PATCH] groups,id: add -0, --null option)

From: [email-masked] (GNU bug Tracking System)
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 12:20:04 +0000

Your bug report

#9987: RFE: 'groups' command ADD command switches "-0", and "-1"

which was filed against the coreutils package, has been closed.

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Subject: Re: bug#9987: [PATCH] groups,id: add -0, --null option
From: Bernhard Voelker <[email-masked]>
To: Eric Blake <[email-masked]>
Cc: [email-masked],Pádraig Brady <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 21 Sep 2013 14:19:17 +0200
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

On 09/21/2013 02:12 PM, Eric Blake wrote:
> On 09/21/2013 04:38 AM, Pádraig Brady wrote:
>> On 09/21/2013 11:15 AM, Bernhard Voelker wrote:
>>> diff --git a/tests/misc/id-zero.sh b/tests/misc/id-zero.sh
>>
>>> +id root || fail=1
>>
>> The 'root' name is guaranteed to be present,
> 
> Not on Cygwin.
> 

Okay, pushed with that change.
http://git.sv.gnu.org/cgit/coreutils.git/commit/?id=2a0d241f

Marking this bug as done.

Thanks & have a nice day,
Berny

Subject: RFE: 'groups' command ADD command switches "-0", and "-1"
From: Linda Walsh <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Mon, 07 Nov 2011 14:27:50 -0800
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

I'd like to request an RFE for the groups command to add 2 switches:

-1 - print groups  in 1 column (cf. ls -1)
-0 - print groups followed by null (cf. find et al)

reasons: have groups with spaces in them.
              provide ultimate safety/futureproof with -0

??
reasonable?