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Old 08-25-2009
List /home directories in a file
Hi, i was looking at a unix paper i found and one of the tasks was to create a file called 'usernames' that contains a list of all directories in /home. This file should be located in the /home/userinfo directory.

How would i go about doing this without changing directories from the home directory /root?
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Old 08-25-2009
Code:
ls /home

or, if you want information on who owns the directories in /home:
Code:
ls -l /home

However, this only tells you which users have home directories. And, in some cases, there may be directories here for users without accounts.

You may try to view the output of the /etc/passwd file for a more accurate list of user accounts.
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Old 08-25-2009
try..
Code:
-bash-3.2$ awk -F: '{print $6}' /etc/passwd > /home/userinfo/usernames
/root
/bin
/sbin

or as for the exercise

Code:
ls -1 /home > /home/userinfo/usernames

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