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

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'
should give you access to the complete manual.

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