BIP KB Tag: Full User List
How To Extract A User List From Your Linux System
Here is a simple way to extract the User Name and full name for all the users on your Linux system. Both methods divide the /etc/passwd file into columns and print column 1 and 5 where ":" is used as a common delimiter. Column 1 contains the username and column 5 contains the full name. Using awk:
BEGIN { FS=":" }
{ print $1 "\t" $5 }
save this as extractnames.awk . Now execute awk and include this file:
$ awk ...
By kevin, June 26, 2015