[Chapter 3] 3.2.45 getgrgid
Author: Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen & Randal L. Schwartz
Date: 1999-07-02T01:50:02Z

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| Chapter 3 Functions |

### 3.2.45 getgrgid

    getgrgid GID

This function does the same thing as getgrgid(3): it looks up a group file entry by group number. 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 caching the data in a hash (associative array) using getgrent.

In scalar context, getgrgid returns only the group name.

3.2.44 getgrent |  | 3.2.46 getgrnam