Let’s say I have a user id in Linux 234234234 and I need to check which user that represents in Active Directory.

All I need is:

pbis enum-users | grep -B 5 -A 5 234234234

where:

enum-users: returns all users

grep -B and -A: returns 5 lines before and after the found search string

Sources:

1. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9081/grep-a-file-but-show-several-surrounding-lines
2. https://github.com/BeyondTrust/pbis-open/issues/11