Thank to the lovely monks help I have been working out my coding project for the week. However I have run into an issue regarding groups. I have been using the following code to add a group. It seems the group is not being added even though I get no errors when running the code. After I add a group I've been leaving the script and checking to see if group has been added in the terminal using the cat /etc/group command. I don't see it added. Any ideas why? I apologize for any mistakes word might have put in I can't seem to copy and paste from the shell. I am using oracle vm with Ubuntu and perl version 5.18.2 I am also using warning and strict and have no errors coming up.

3 => sub{
   # do groupadd
   my $groupName = get_group (“Please enter new group name: “);
      if (getgrnam($groupName))
        {
         print “Group already exists.”;
        }
      else
        {
        #if group does not exist create group
        ## FIXME delete “echo”
        system (“echo” , “groupadd”, “$groupName”);
        print “$groupName has been added. \n”;
        }
},

sub get_group{
     my $group = shift;
     print $group;
     chomp (my $ngroup = <>);
     return $nGroup;
}

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As I have to call for groups several times during the program I created a subroutine for it.

In reply to adding a group to the Unix System by deyaneria

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