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I'm not sure about a command but you could look in the /etc/passwd file.
"cat /etc/passwd"
should (on most systems) give you a list of all the users on the system. Keep in mind that some special users may be listed here along with the regular ones.
It will list all lines from /etc/passwd which corresponds to USERs on your box. So from there you can check out the characters before first ":" sign will be the login name for your all users.
Reason---> It will list all the users with UID 500 or above... & the result would be the list of your normal users.
Start using grep... & be more creative. It will help.
Originally posted by amitsharma_26 cat /etc/passwd |grep 500*
...
It will list all the users with UID 500 or above.
That's not entirely true. That grep pattern will match 50, 500-509, 5000-5099, etc. It won't list users with ID's of 510-4999. Also, different distributions use different starting points for beginning UIDs. 500 is pretty common, but I've seen some that start at 1000. A slightly improved version of the command above would be:
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