Linux Show All Members of a Group Command - nixCraft

Iam a new Linux user and created a couple of groups on the server. I need to find out all members of a group called “ftponly”. How do I list all members of a group on Linux or Unix-like systems?

The /etc/group  file is a text file that defines the groups on the Linux and Unix based systems. You can simply query this file to find and list all members of a group.

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Linux Show All Members of a Group Commands

1. /etc/group file – User group file
2. members command – List members of a group
3. lid command (or libuser-lid on newer Linux distros) – List user’s groups or group’s users

There are two types of groups in Linux:

• Primary group – is the main group that is associated with user account. Each user is a member of exactly one primary group.
• Secondary group – used to provide additional rights to user. For example, access to the dvd/cdrom drive can be granted with help of cdrom group.

Linux: List all members of a group using /etc/group file

Use the grep command as follows:

$ grep 'grpup-name-here' /etc/group

$ grep 'ftponly' /etc/group

$ grep -i --color 'ftponly' /etc/group

ftponly:x:1001:raj,vivek,archana,sai,sayali

To get just a list of all members of a group called ftponly, type the following awk command:

awk -F':' '/ftponly/{print $4}' /etc/group
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awk -F':' '/sudo/{print $4}' /etc/group

Display group memberships for each Linux user

Want to see group memberships for each given USERNAME under Linux? The syntax is as follows for the groups command:

groups

groups {USERNAME}

groups vivek

The following outputs indicates that the user named ‘vivek’ is part of four groups including ‘vivek’ primary group:

vivek : vivek wheel lxd vboxusers

Linux List all members of a group using members command

Warning: members command is not installed on most Linux distros. Use yum command or apt-get command/apt command to install the same:

$ sudo apt-get install members

To outputs members of a group called ftponly, enter:

$ members {GROUPNAME}

$ members ftponly

Fig. 01: members command in action to list members in a group

In this example the members command  displays a space-separated list of group member names on screen.How to list all users in a Linux group using lid command

You can displays information about groups containing user name, or users contained in group name using lid command as follows.

Warning: lid command is not installed on most distros. Use yum command or apt-get command to install the same:

$ sudo apt-get install libuser

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3. Print Short Answer
Use +short command line option to print result in short form. This is basically useful with the shell scripting and other automation tasks.
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Use +noall with +answer to print detailed information but specific. This will print only answer section including few more details as a result.

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Below is the basic mv command examples on Linux terminal.

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• Move file from source directory to destination directory – We can also move files or directory from some other directory to destination directory.
• Move multiple files to destination at once – The mv accepts multiple source files and move them to the destination directory at once. The following command will move file1.txt, file2.txt in current directory and /opt/file3.txt to the /tmp directory. Here the last command line parameter is used as destination by the mv command.

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If you work with Linux then you will need the following:

• how to remove empty directory in linux,
• how to remove non empty directory,
• how to remove directory without confirmation linux
• how to remove files with and without confirmation in linux.

So, this tutorial guide will show you you how to use the rm, unlink, and rmdir commands to remove or delete files and directories in Linux with and without confirmation.

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