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in reply to Determining real name from login name

You can use Unix::PasswdFile :
use Unix::PasswdFile;

$pw = new Unix::PasswdFile "/etc/passwd";
my $realname = $pw->gecos("toto");

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Re^2: Determining real name from login name
by Fletch (Bishop) on Nov 30, 2004 at 14:17 UTC

    And then you move to a system using NIS/YP or LDAP and wonder why your script breaks . . . . getpwuid() and friends work just fine and are core; no need for an extra module.

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