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Pandya
Asked: 2014-08-24 06:26:38 +0800 CST

How can I display all users and groups with a command?

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I want to display:

  1. All users and

  2. All groups

    in my system using command-line.

users and groups commands display users currently logged in, and groups a user belongs to respectively.

How to display a list of all users and all groups by command-line?

command-line

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can display with the help of compgen builtin command as follows:

    1. To display all users run following command:

      compgen -u

    2. To display all groups run following command:

      compgen -g

    However you can also display all users by cut -d ":" -f 1 /etc/passwd.

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  2. Here we are going to use getent for the detailed the info

    We can list the user with the following command:

    getent passwd

    We can list the group as follows:

    getent group

    To fetch detail a specific user 

    getent passwd lalit

    Replace the lalit with your user name. Lalit will not be in every system :)

    You can read the more into about getent here

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