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group.5: Various minor rewordings and improvements 

Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
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.\" USA.
.\"
.\" Modified Sat Jul 24 17:06:03 1993 by Rik Faith (faith@cs.unc.edu)
.TH GROUP 5 1992-12-29 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.TH GROUP 5 2009-02-23 "Linux" "Linux Programmer's Manual"
.SH NAME
group \- user group file
.SH DESCRIPTION
\fI/etc/group\fP is an ASCII file which defines the groups to which users
belong.
There is one entry per line, and each line has the format:
\fI/etc/group\fP is a text file which defines the groups on the system.
There is one entry per line, with the following format:
.sp
.RS
group_name:passwd:GID:user_list
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.IP GID
the numerical group ID.
.IP user_list
all the group member's usernames, separated by commas.
a list of the usernames that are members of this group, separated by commas.
.SH FILES
/etc/group
.SH BUGS