how to count the number of users in a group?

Linuxlearner122 · 01-31-2014, 10:12 AM

Hello People,

I used this command ypcat group |grep zebra1 which list all the users in zebra1 group but I want to know exaclty how many users are in the group. Is there any commands to list the number of users?

Thanks,

r41d3n · 01-31-2014, 10:48 AM

ypcat group |grep zebra1 | wc -l

wc -l will count the number of lines.

bonnydeal · 01-31-2014, 10:49 AM

Checkout the man pages for wc - that should do it.

Code:

ypcat group |grep zebra1 | wc -l

Hope this helps

Linuxlearner122 · 01-31-2014, 11:28 AM

Try that wc -l earlier, it didn't work

shivaa · 01-31-2014, 11:50 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by bonnydeal

Checkout the man pages for wc - that should do it.

Code:

ypcat group |grep zebra1 | wc -l

Note that -l option counts lines, not words or columns. Since output of ypcat group... command is one liner, so there's no point of using -l option, but instead there should be used -w (it stands for words count, check man page of wc). However, you should try some utility like awk to count all users in a group. Just give it a try:

Code:

~$ awk -F"," '/zebra1/ {gsub(","," ",$0); print $0}' /etc/group | wc -w

jpollard · 01-31-2014, 05:49 PM

Also - the list of users in the group is not complete. It doesn't necessarily include users with that group as the default group specified in the passwd map.

What makes it worse, is that there CAN be overlap between the two lists. Users can be entered in the group map as well as having it as their default group.