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Name

groups - print the groups a user is in

Synopsis

groups [\,OPTION\/]... [\,USERNAME\/]...

Description

Print group memberships for each USERNAME or, if no USERNAME is specified, for the current process (which may differ if the groups database has changed).

--help display this help and exit

--version output version information and exit

Author

Written by David MacKenzie and James Youngman.

Reporting Bugs

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Copyright

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

See Also

getent(1)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/groups> or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) groups invocation\(aq

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