[Chapter 3] 3.2.46 getgrnam
Author: Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Randal L. Schwartz
Date: 1999-07-02T01:50:03Z

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| Chapter 3 Functions |

### 3.2.46 getgrnam

    getgrnam NAME

This function does the same thing as getgrnam(3): it looks up a group file entry by group name. The return value 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. If you want to do this repeatedly, consider slurping the data into a hash (associative array) using getgrent.

In scalar context, getgrnam returns only the numeric group ID.

3.2.45 getgrgid |  | 3.2.47 gethostbyaddr