class Etc::Group
Group
is a placeholder Struct
for user group database on Unix systems.
The struct contains the following members¶ ↑
- name
-
contains the name of the group as a
String
. - passwd
-
contains the encrypted password as a
String
. An'x'
is returned if password access to the group is not available; an empty string is returned if no password is needed to obtain membership of the group. This is system-dependent. - gid
-
contains the group’s numeric ID as an integer.
- mem
-
is an
Array
of Strings containing the short login names of the members of the group.
Public Class Methods
Source
static VALUE etc_each_group(VALUE obj) { RETURN_ENUMERATOR(obj, 0, 0); each_group(); return obj; }
Iterates for each entry in the /etc/group
file if a block is given.
If no block is given, returns the Enumerator
.
The code block is passed a Group
struct.
Example:
require 'etc' Etc::Group.each {|g| puts g.name + ": " + g.mem.join(', ') } Etc::Group.collect {|g| g.name} Etc::Group.select {|g| !g.mem.empty?}