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jc.parsers.group

jc - JSON Convert /etc/group file parser

Usage (cli):

$ cat /etc/group | jc --group

Usage (module):

import jc
result = jc.parse('group', group_file_output)

Schema:

[
  {
    "group_name":    string,
    "password":      string,
    "gid":           integer,
    "members": [
                     string
    ]
  }
]

Examples:

$ cat /etc/group | jc --group -p
[
  {
    "group_name": "nobody",
    "password": "*",
    "gid": -2,
    "members": []
  },
  {
    "group_name": "nogroup",
    "password": "*",
    "gid": -1,
    "members": []
  },
  {
    "group_name": "wheel",
    "password": "*",
    "gid": 0,
    "members": [
      "root"
    ]
  },
  {
    "group_name": "certusers",
    "password": "*",
    "gid": 29,
    "members": [
      "root",
      "_jabber",
      "_postfix",
      "_cyrus",
      "_calendar",
      "_dovecot"
    ]
  },
  ...
]

$ cat /etc/group | jc --group -p -r
[
  {
    "group_name": "nobody",
    "password": "*",
    "gid": "-2",
    "members": [
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "group_name": "nogroup",
    "password": "*",
    "gid": "-1",
    "members": [
      ""
    ]
  },
  {
    "group_name": "wheel",
    "password": "*",
    "gid": "0",
    "members": [
      "root"
    ]
  },
  {
    "group_name": "certusers",
    "password": "*",
    "gid": "29",
    "members": [
      "root",
      "_jabber",
      "_postfix",
      "_cyrus",
      "_calendar",
      "_dovecot"
    ]
  },
  ...
]

parse

def parse(data, raw=False, quiet=False)

Main text parsing function

Parameters:

data:        (string)  text data to parse
raw:         (boolean) unprocessed output if True
quiet:       (boolean) suppress warning messages if True

Returns:

List of Dictionaries. Raw or processed structured data.

Parser Information

Compatibility: linux, darwin, aix, freebsd

Source: jc/parsers/group.py

Version 1.5 by Kelly Brazil (kellyjonbrazil@gmail.com)