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Name

groups - print group membership of user

Synopsis

groups [ user... ]

Availability

SUNWcsu

Description

The command groups prints on standard output the groups to which you or the optionally specified user belong. Each user belongs to a group specified in /etc/passwd and possibly to other groups as specified in /etc/group. Note that /etc/passwd specifies the numerical ID (gid) of the group. The groups command converts gid to the group name in the output.

Example

The output takes the following form: 


example% groups tester01 tester02
tester01 : staff
tester02 : staff
example%

Files

/etc/passwd
/etc/group

See Also

group(4) , passwd(4)

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