show users linux code example

Example 1: list users in linux

cat /etc/passwd

Example 2: how to see our already added users in linux

$ lslogins -u

UID USER       PROC PWD-LOCK PWD-DENY LAST-LOGIN GECOS
   0 root        144                              root
1000 tecmint      70                     10:39:07 TecMint,,,
1001 aaronkilik    0                              
1002 john          0                              John Doo

Example 3: list all users linux

awk -F: '{ print $1}' /etc/passwd

Example 4: users list linux

cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd
or
cat /etc/passwd

Example 5: get users shell

getent passwd $LOGNAME | cut -d: -f7