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Hi All, Is their any command to find the number of users or all user names in the system. Not only current login user, i am looking all those who ...
  1. 04-27-2009 #1
    dayananda.ms
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    find number of users

    Hi All,

    Is their any command to find the number of users or all user names in the system.
    Not only current login user, i am looking all those who have account in system.

    I can get directly from /etc/passwd file by viewing, but is their any command to display all user names.
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    There isn't any command to list all users but as you already doing, use /etc/passwd file for that. You can check the /home folder too.
    Code:
    cat /etc/passwd | cut -d ":" -f1
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