with-each-user Utility which helps to execute commands on behalf of all users in the system in a row
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with-each-user is an utility which helps to execute commands on behalf of all users in the system in a row.With each userThe with_each_user command is basically nothing but a shortcut/replacement for constructs like:root:~# ls /home | xargs -i su - {} -c "whoami"That is, its goal is to execute the same command for all users in the system in a row. The line above can be rewritten with:root:~# with_each_user whoamiAdditionally, you can filter out unneeded users by their logins, shells and uid, run commands simultaneously, interactively, and store script outputs in log files in a separate directory.See usage for details.UsageThis is the with_each_user --help output:usage: with_each_user command Execute a command for a number users in the serverpositional arguments: command Shell command to executeoptional arguments: -h, --help show this help message and exit -m MASK, --mask MASK Filter users by their logins. Globbing is here allowed, you can type, for example, "user*" -s SHELL, --shell SHELL Filter users by their shells. For example, you can exclude the majority of system users by issuing "/bin/bash" here -u MIN_UID, --min-uid MIN_UID Filter users by their minimal uid. -U MAX_UID, --max-uid MAX_UID Filter users by their max uid (to filter out "nobody", for example -c CONCURRENCY, --concurrency CONCURRENCY Number of processes to run simultaneously -d CURRENT_DIRECTORY, --current-directory CURRENT_DIRECTORY Script working directory (relative to user's home) -p, --preserve-environment Preserve root environment. Arguments match the same of "su" command -f, --format Format command line with variables custom for every user. Supported variables: {user}, {uid}, {gid}, {home}, {shell}, {gecos}. -r, --root Run command with root privileges (do not "su" to selected user). Option "--format" is helpful there -i, --interactive Interactive execution. Set this flag to run processes interactively -L LOG_DIRECTORY, --log-directory LOG_DIRECTORY Directory to store log for all executions. Omit this argument if you want just to print everything to stdout/stderrProduct's homepage

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