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On 06/11/2012 10:13 AM, Lavrentiev, Anton (NIH/NLM/NCBI) [C] wrote:

> 2. Since Windows group names can embed spaces, the output of the "groups"=
 shell command

'groups' is no longer a shell command, but an executable, for several
coreutils releases now.

>    is unparsable in CYGWIN (scripting becomes problematic), because the s=
pace is used both
>    in the group names (as obtained from Windows) and to delimit the group=
 names in the groups'
>    output:

Such a proposal should be made to upstream coreutils, as it could
possibly be of benefit to more platforms than just cygwin.

>     Perhaps CYGWIN could have used a tab to separate the group names?

What's to say that 'TAB' won't be valid in a group name?

>     Or list each group on an individual line?

An option to request alternative output format (whether that be
line-separated, or even NUL-byte separated) might indeed be more palatable.

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