Name
getgrent
Synopsis
getgrent
Returns the next entry from the systems group file
(usually /etc/group on Unix systems) starting
from the top. Returns null when end-of-file is reached. The return
value from getgrent in list
context is:
($name, $passwd, $gid, $members)
in which $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.
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