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Want a list of users on your box?
26 August 2000
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If you ever want a list of users on your system, use this little script:cat /etc/passwd | cut -d: -f1 | grep -v \# The cut command selects portions of a file. We use ":" as the delimiting character. And we want only the first field. The grep eliminates lines with # in them, which normally appear at the start of the password file. Exercises for the interested and motivated:
Hope that helps. My thanks to halflife for the original idea and to pal for adding the grep. |