NAME
id - print real and effective user and group IDs
SYNOPSIS
id [OPTION]... [USERNAME]
DESCRIPTION
Print user and group information for the specified USERNAME, or (when USERNAME omitted) for the current user.
-a | ignore, for compatibility with other versions |
-Z, --context | |
print only the security context of the current user | |
-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 |
--help | display this help and exit |
--version | |
output version information and exit | |
AUTHOR
Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.
REPORTING BUGS
Report id bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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
The full documentation for id is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and id programs are properly installed at your site, the command
info coreutils 'id invocation' | |