All users in /etc/passwd file

[milestone]

Hi,

I need a shell script which lists all users listed in /etc/passwd file. This script should show all the users created.

Is it possible to extract only users with different shells? Please reply..

[scm]

Well, you could use cat, or grep can select lines based on specific patterns. If you want to pick out certain fields you could do something with awk:

awk -F: '{print $5, "(" $1, "-", $7 ")"}' /etc/passwd

which will list the GECOS field followed by the userid and login shell.