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Re: Re: How to chgrp in perl?
by neniro (Priest) on Apr 04, 2004 at 11:52 UTC
    The solutions i saw, searching Perlmonks, use chown and numerical-IDs. They resolve these by using getpwnam. I'd like to enhance my script, described in Using perl for creating project folders, in a way that it is possible to declare group rights in the xml-schema. It is much more flexible if i can use groupnames instead of numerical IDs.
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      getgrnam, in scalar context, returns the group ID of the named group: 
      my $gid = getgrnam("users");

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      Now you can use the chown function.

      perldoc -f getgrnam gives more detailed information about getgrnam (and its sibling functions).

      Arjen

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        That really helps me.
        Thanks a lot!

        neniro
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