Slightly OT: check creation of a group
 

Hi,

I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my
already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty.

I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it.

Only thing I found is:

if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then
continue
else
groupadd medintux
fi

Apparently I can't seem to "negate" the test, e. g. something like

if !(grep medintux /etc/group)

Any suggestions for the correct syntax here ?

Thanks,

Niki
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Slightly OT: check creation of a group
 

On Mon, 2010-03-01 at 17:03 +0100, Niki Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my
> already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty.
>
> I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it.
>
> Only thing I found is:
>
> if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then
> continue
> else
> groupadd medintux
> fi
>
> Apparently I can't seem to "negate" the test, e. g. something like
>
> if !(grep medintux /etc/group)
>
> Any suggestions for the correct syntax here ?
>

Try this:

grep -q medintux /etc/group || groupadd medintux

> Thanks,
>
> Niki
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Slightly OT: check creation of a group
 

2010/3/1 Niki Kovacs <contact@kikinovak.net>:
> Hi,
>
> I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my
> already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty.
>
> I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it.
>
> Only thing I found is:
>
> if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then
> * * * *continue
> else
> * * * *groupadd medintux
> fi
>
> Apparently I can't seem to "negate" the test, e. g. something like
>
> if !(grep medintux /etc/group)
>
> Any suggestions for the correct syntax here ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Niki
Why don't you use groupadd -f ? It will not override the group if it
already exists, and shortens the code :)

Laurent
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Slightly OT: check creation of a group
 

grep medintux /etc/group || groupadd medintux

or in a if operation:

if [[ ! grep medintux /etc/group ]]
then
groupadd medintux
fi

Regards,
Frank.

Niki Kovacs <contact@kikinovak.net> schrieb am 01.03.2010 17:03:46:

> Hi,
>
> I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my
> already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty.
>
> I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it.
>
> Only thing I found is:
>
> if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then
> continue
> else
> groupadd medintux
> fi
>
> Apparently I can't seem to "negate" the test, e. g. something like
>
> if !(grep medintux /etc/group)
>
> Any suggestions for the correct syntax here ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Niki
> _______________________________________________
> CentOS mailing list
> CentOS@centos.org
> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos

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Slightly OT: check creation of a group
 

> Apparently I can't seem to "negate" the test, e. g. something like
>
> if !(grep medintux /etc/group)
>
> Any suggestions for the correct syntax here ?
>


I'd do it like this:

grep medintux /etc/group
if [ $? != 0 ]; then
echo "Group not found"
fi



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Slightly OT: check creation of a group
 

On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 11:08 AM, Laurent Wandrebeck
<l.wandrebeck@gmail.com> wrote:

>> Niki
> Why don't you use groupadd -f ? It will not override the group if it
> already exists, and shortens the code :)
>

That gets my vote :)

I have seen code that creates a temp file then does a chgrp on the
file. If it fails then the group is created. If not, the existing
group was used. This was done to get around some differences between
SunOS and Linux and unknown state of LDAP/local auth.
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On Mon, Mar 01, 2010 at 05:12:15PM +0100, Geoff Galitz wrote:

> I'd do it like this:
>
> grep medintux /etc/group
> if [ $? != 0 ]; then
> echo "Group not found"
> fi

Or allow for naming services (NIS, LDAP, whatever)

if [ -z "$(getent group medintux)" ]
then
groupadd ....
fi

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Slightly OT: check creation of a group
 

Niki wrote:
>
> I'm currently writing an install script for an application, and my
> already limited Bash skills are a bit rusty.
>
> I want to check if a group exists, and if it doesn't, then create it.
>
> Only thing I found is:
>
> if [ grep medintux /etc/group ]; then
> continue
> else
> groupadd medintux
> fi
>
Why not
if [ `grep -c medintux /etc/group` == 0 ]; then
groupadd medintux
fi

?

mark

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