How to list all users in a Linux group?

Question

How do I list all members of a group in Linux (and possibly other unices)?

Answer 1

I've done this similar to the perl code above, but replaced getent and id with native perl functions. It is much faster and should work across different *nix flavors.

#!/usr/bin/env perl

use strict;
my $arg=shift;
my %groupMembers; # defining outside of function so that hash is only built once for multiple function calls

sub expandGroupMembers{
my $groupQuery=shift;
unless (%groupMembers){
    while (my($name,$pass,$uid,$gid,$quota,$comment,$gcos,$dir,$shell,$expire)=getpwent()) {
            my $primaryGroup=getgrgid($gid);
            $groupMembers{$primaryGroup}->{$name}=1;
    }
    while (my($gname,$gpasswd,$gid,$members)=getgrent()) {
            foreach my $member (split / /, $members){
                    $groupMembers{$gname}->{$member}=1;
            }
    }
}
my $membersConcat=join(",",sort keys %{$groupMembers{$groupQuery}});
return "$membersConcat" || "$groupQuery Does have any members";
}
print &expandGroupMembers($arg)."\n";