Linux Pocket Guide

Name

groupdel group — shadow-utils

Synopsis

/usr/sbin stdin stdout - file -- opt --help --version

The groupdel command deletes an existing group.

# groupdel friends

Before doing this, it’s a good idea to identify all files that have their group ID set to the given group, so you can deal with them later:

# find / -group friends -print

because groupdel does not change the group ownership of any files. It simply removes the group name from the system’s records.