Reference: getgrent
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:35:38Z

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| Chapter 5 Function Reference |

## getgrent

    getgrent

Returns the next entry from the systems group file (usually /etc/group on Unix systems) starting from the top. Returns null when EOF is reached. The return value from `getgrent` in list context is:

>     ($name, $passwd, $gid, $members)

where `$members` contains a space-separated list of the login names of the members of the group. In scalar context, `getgrent` returns only the group name.

Reference: getc |  | Reference: getgrgid