id
(1g)
Name
id - print real and effective user and group IDs
Synopsis
id [OPTION]... [USERNAME]
Description
User Commands ID(1)
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 [email protected]
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/core-
utils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/geth-
elp/>
Report id translation bugs to <http://translationpro-
ject.org/team/>
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User Commands ID(1)
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (C) 2012 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 redis-
tribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted
by law.
ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following
attributes:
+---------------+--------------------+
|ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Availability | file/gnu-coreutils |
+---------------+--------------------+
|Stability | Uncommitted |
+---------------+--------------------+
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.
NOTES
This software was built from source available at
https://java.net/projects/solaris-userland. The original
community source was downloaded from
http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/coreutils/coreutils-8.16.tar.xz
Further information about this software can be found on the
open source community website at http://www.gnu.org/soft-
ware/coreutils/.
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