How to view all users in Linux

In Linux, you can use the following command to view all users:

1. display the content of the file /etc/passwd

cat /etc/passwd

1. Extract the first field from the /etc/passwd file using a delimiter of “:”.

cut -d: -f1 /etc/passwd

1. Retrieve user information

getent passwd

1. Extract the first field from the /etc/passwd file using the delimiter “:”

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

These commands can be executed in the terminal to view information of all users in the system.