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id - print user identity
id [OPTION]... [USERNAME]
Print information for USERNAME, or 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.
Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.
Report
bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2008 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.
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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