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What command willl list all users except root account

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Final answer:

To list all users except for the root account on a Linux system, you can use the command 'getent passwd | grep -v '^root:''. This command displays all user accounts while excluding the root account.

Step-by-step explanation:

To list all users on a Linux system except for the root account, you can use a command that filters out the root user from the list. One common method is to use the getent command in conjunction with grep, as follows:

getent passwd | grep -v '^root:'

This command uses getent to retrieve the list of all user accounts from the system's user database and pipes (|) the output to grep, which is used to exclude the line that starts with 'root:' (representing the root account).

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