On Mar 21, Trice Dennis D said:

>I'm trying to create a hash of the /etc/group file.  I need the key to be
>the group name and just the members of the group to be the key value.  

You can use Perl's getgrent() function.

  setgrent();
  while ( my ($name, $members) = (getgrent)[0,3] ) {
    $group{$name} = $members;
  }
  endgrent();

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