Reference: getpwuid
Author: Ellen Siever, Stephen Spainhour & Nathan Patwardhan
Date: 1999-07-02T01:35:55Z

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| Chapter 5 Function Reference |

## getpwuid

    getpwuid uid

Retrieves the passwd file entry with the user ID uid. The return value in list context is:

>     ($name,$passwd,$uid,$gid,$quota,$comment,$gcos,$dir,$shell)

If you want to do this repeatedly, consider slurping the data into a hash using `getpwent`.

In scalar context, `getpwuid` returns the username.

Reference: getpwnam |  | Reference: getservbyname