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Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition
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Perl Pocket Reference, 4th Edition

by Johan Vromans
July 2002
Beginner to intermediate
96 pages
1h 53m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Information About Groups

In list context, each of these routines returns a list of values. Use the standard module User::grent for by-name access to the elements of the list:

Index

Name

Description

0

name

Group name

1

passwd

Password info

2

gid

Id of this group

3

members

Space-separated list of the login names of the group members

endgrent

Ends lookup processing.

getgrent

Gets next group information. In scalar context, returns the group name.

getgrgid gid

Gets information by group id. In scalar context, returns the group name.

getgrnam name

Gets information by name. In scalar context, returns the group id.

setgrent

Resets lookup processing.

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