Name
getpwuid
Synopsis
getpwuid uid
Description
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.
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