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.Dd November 16, 2005 .Dt USERINFO 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm userinfo .Nd displays user information .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl e .Ar user .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility retrieves the user information from the system. The .Nm utility is only available if built with .Dv EXTENSIONS . See .Xr user 8 for more information.
Copyright (c) 1999 Alistair G. Crooks. All rights reserved.
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.Dd November 16, 2005 .Dt USERINFO 8 .Os .Sh NAME .Nm userinfo .Nd displays user information .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl e .Ar user .Sh DESCRIPTION The .Nm utility retrieves the user information from the system. The .Nm utility is only available if built with .Dv EXTENSIONS . See .Xr user 8 for more information.
p The following command line option is recognised: l -tag -width Ds t Fl e Return 0 if the user exists, and non-zero if the user does not exist, on the system. No information is displayed. This form of the command is useful for scripts which need to check whether a particular user name or uid is already in use on the system. .El
p The .Ar user argument may either be a user's name, or a uid. .Sh EXIT STATUS .Ex -std userinfo .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr passwd 5 , .Xr group 8 , .Xr user 8 , .Xr useradd 8 , .Xr userdel 8 .Sh HISTORY The .Nm utility first appeared in .Nx 1.5 . It is based on the .Ar addnerd package by the same author. .Sh AUTHORS The .Nm utility was written by .An Alistair G. Crooks .Aq agc@NetBSD.org .