#!/bin/bash cut -f3 -d":" /etc/group | sort -n | uniq -c | while read x ; do [ -z "$x" ] && break set - $x if [ $1 -gt 1 ]; then groups=$(awk -F: '($3 == n) { print $1 }' n=$2 /etc/group | xargs) echo "Duplicate GID ($2): $groups" fi done