showing list of directories using ls

Question

I want to read all home directories of users on a Linux system. I know I can use:

cut -d':' -f6 /etc/passwd | sort -u

to get a list of those directories.

How can I list each of those directories in detailed format, as when using ls -l?

For example, I would expect to get the root directory as:

dr-xr-x---. 4 root root 4096 Mar  2 02:49 root

Is there any option to pipe the list from the cut command to ls for showing the content?

Answer 1

I think this is what you're looking for:

cut -d':' -f6 /etc/passwd | sort -u | xargs -i% ls -ld %