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 liz@raku.rocks

If you like this module, or what I’m doing more generally, committing to a small sponsorship would mean a great deal to me!

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

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE#

Copyright 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2023 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.