Greetings, I am running mandrake 9.1 webserver. Is there a quick way to list all my groups and users within the groups? I know a script would be nice but I am not that experienced in scripts yet. I just want to list all the users by PID and groups with GID. ANy quick thoughts on this?

Thanks..

Try this command. ....

homey.. Thanks.. I got a list of names with I am guessing the GID tied in to the user. That will work. Can you tell me what the pipe info is? ex. awk -Fprint $1" "$3: "$4)' Thank you for the reply.

Glad to help.

cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1" "$3" "$4}'

Actually, I could have made it easier for you with something like this....

cat /etc/passwd | awk -F: '{print $1" UID="$3" GID="$4}'


awk -F: '{print $1" UID="$3" GID="$4}'


To break this down to english....

Awk is a relative of the penguin. I can't remember what it stands for but it's made to scan for patterns.

-F: this tells awk to use the : for a field separator instead of the normal space or tab. If you run the command: cat /etc/passwd without awk, you will get a better idea of the fields separated by the colon ( : )

print send the results to standard output ( the screen )

$1 says to print the information in the first field. In this case, it is the user name.

" " I put a space between the output fields so it would look better.


There you go. I have lots of fun coming up with more uses for awk and another neat tool called sed.
If you google, you can get lots of examples,

Thank You Homey.