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   Chris Siebenmann (cks@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:12:17 JST Chris Siebenmann

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   • awb

   @awb I can't think of a POSIX utility for this. I wouldn't be surprised if the omission was deliberate; is there anything in POSIX that requires there to be more than one user? (Who has some arbitrary but constant UID.)

   That would be a perverse Unix, but the folklore I heard was that POSIX was deliberately designed so that non-Unixes could conform, for US government contracting reasons. (And I believe some non-Unixes once were POSIX certified.)

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     awb (awb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:12:20 JST awb

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     Just for reference again here with public visibility. POSIX.1-2017 says:

     "User Database

     There are no references in POSIX.1-2017 to a "passwd file" or a "group file", and there is no requirement that the group or passwd databases be kept in files containing editable text."

     #posix

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     awb (awb@mastodon.sdf.org)'s status on Sunday, 23-Jun-2024 01:12:21 JST awb

     Question for fellow Shell experts: Is there a POSIX-portable utility to find another user's home directory? I am looking for an alternative to ~user in scripts.

     #shell #posix #linux #unix