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Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: May 2006
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NAME
SYNOPSIS
id
DESCRIPTION
Print information for USERNAME, or the current user.
- -a
ignore, for compatibility with other versions
- -Z, –context
print only the security context
- -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 bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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 id
should give you access to the complete manual.