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34 .Nd check the syntax of the group file
42 scans the given file or, failing that, the system-wide group file for
44 Specifically, it checks that every non-blank, non-comment
45 entry is composed of four colon-separated fields, that none of them
46 contains whitespace, and that the third field (the group ID) is
47 numeric. It will also check for invalid characters in the group names
50 .Bl -tag -width /etc/group -compact
59 if errors were found in the group file,
66 will print an error message containing the name of the file being
67 scanned and the line number on which the error was found.
79 utility and this manual page were written by
80 .An Dag-Erling Sm\(/orgrav Aq des@FreeBSD.org .
82 Further functionality was added by
83 .An Liam J. Foy Aq liamfoy@dragonflybsd.org .
85 Should check the range of the group ID.