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Name

id - print real and effective user and group IDs

Synopsis

id [\,OPTION\/]... [\,USER\/]...

Description

Print user and group information for each specified USER, or (when USER omitted) for the current user.

-a ignore, for compatibility with other versions

-Z, --context print only the security context of the process

-g, --group print only the effective group ID

-G, --groups print all group IDs

-n, --name print a name instead of a number, for -ugG

-r, --real print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -ugG

-u, --user print only the effective user ID

-z, --zero delimit entries with NUL characters, not whitespace;

not permitted in default format

--help display this help and exit

--version output version information and exit

Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified information.

Author

Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.

Reporting Bugs

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>

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

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

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