NAME

Raku port of Perl's getgrnam() and associated built-ins

SYNOPSIS

use P5getgrnam;

my @result = getgrnam(~$*USER);

DESCRIPTION

This module tries to mimic the behaviour of Perl's getgrnam and associated built-ins as closely as possible in the Raku Programming Language.

It exports:

endgrent getgrent getgrgid getgrnam setgrent

ORIGINAL PERL 5 DOCUMENTATION

getgrnam NAME
getgrgid GID
getgrent
setgrent
endgrent
        These routines are the same as their counterparts in the system C
        library. In list context, the return values from the various get
        routines are as follows:

         # 0        1          2           3         4
         ( $name,   $passwd,   $gid,       $members  ) = getgr*

        In scalar context, you get the name, unless the function was a
        lookup by name, in which case you get the other thing, whatever it
        is. (If the entry doesn't exist you get the undefined value.) For
        example:

            $gid   = getgrnam($name);
            $name  = getgrgid($num);

        The $members value returned by getgr*() is a space-separated list
        of the login names of the members of the group.

PORTING CAVEATS

This module depends on the availability of POSIX semantics. This is generally not available on Windows, so this module will probably not work on Windows.

AUTHOR

Elizabeth Mattijsen [email protected]

Source can be located at: https://github.com/lizmat/P5getgrnam . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021 Elizabeth Mattijsen

Re-imagined from Perl as part of the CPAN Butterfly Plan.

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.