Name
getpwnam
Synopsis
getpwnam name
Description
Retrieves the passwd file entry of a user, name. The return value in list context is:
($name,$passwd,$uid,$gid,$quota,$comment,$gcos,$dir,$shell)
If you want to do this repeatedly, consider caching the data in a hash
using getpwent.
In scalar context, getpwnam returns only the numeric user ID.
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