I wonder what vi has to do with it. Next time, please show some code, and indicate what went wrong (did you get an error message? Unexpected results?)

But you might want to use *grent: 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use strict;
use warnings 'all';

setgrent;  

while (my ($name, $passwd, $gid, $members) = getgrent) {
    print "$gid: $name: $members\n";
}

endgrent;  

__END__

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The setgrent and endgrent are optional.

Abigail

In reply to Re: 2048 character limit by Abigail-II
in thread 2048 character limit by druid

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