How about if you echo %1 into temp2.txt and then if temp1.txt and temp2.txt
match exactly the user is a member.

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Richard Mueller
Microsoft MVP Scripting and ADSI
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"Kshaeta" <visual.eyes@telus.net> wrote in message
news:ul0uxUZ8HHA.3916@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl...
> The COPY won't work, but if you do an FC, you can check the IF/ERRORLEVEL
> after doing the FC to see if the output file from the FIND matches a
> zero-byte file. If it's non-zero, then you likely found the name in the
> group.
>
> @echo off
> dsget group "cn=MyGroup,ou=Sales,dc=MyDomain,dc=com" -expand -members |
> dsget user -samid -c | find /i "%1" > temp1.txt
>
> @echo on > temp2.txt (Create a zero byte file)
> @echo off
> fc temp1.txt temp2.txt
> if NOT ERRORLEVEL 1 Goto NO
>
> Echo User is a member of the group
> GoTo END
>
> :NO
> Echo User not a member of the group
>
> :END
> REM del temp1.txt
> REM del temp2.txt
>
> I've tried it... it mostly works. The only problem now is there is no
> EXACT find. So if there is a person named smit and someone named smithj,
> if you do a search on the USERNAME smit, within the file, but only smithj
> is in there, it will return a positive, because smit is found within
> smithj.
>
> Luckily, there's no one with weird names like that. Good enough.
>
> Thanks for the !
>
> --
> Bill Tkach
> MSP, CCNA, A+
> visual{period}eyes{at}telus{period}net
>
>
> Richard Mueller [MVP] wrote:
>> I see, you want a conditional branch based on group membership. I can't
>> think of a way to do that in a batch file. You could redirect the output
>> of the dsget command to a text file. I thought I used to be able to check
>> if a text file was empty (zero bytes) in a batch file by copying it. If
>> the file was zero bytes the target file would not be created, which can
>> be checked in a batch file with "If Exists". I can't do it now. Either
>> the copy command behaves differently or I forget the exact technique.
>> Maybe someone else knows how.
>>
>> Also, I find the /i switch is necessary in the find command to make it
>> case insensitive. The batch file I was testing with was:
>> ========
>> @echo off
>> dsget group "cn=MyGroup,ou=Sales,dc=MyDomain,dc=com" -expand -members |
>> dsget user -samid -c | find /i "%username%" > temp1.txt
>>
>> copy temp1.txt temp2.txt > nul
>>
>> If Exist temp2.txt GoTo YES
>> Echo User not a member of the group
>> GoTo END
>>
>> :YES
>> Echo User is a member of the group
>> del temp2.txt
>>
>> :END
>> del temp1.txt
>> ============
>> If temp.txt is zero bytes the current user is not a member of the group.
>> However, temp2.txt is created even if temp1.txt is zero bytes, to the
>> above always reports that the user is a member of the group.
>>