ID
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: April 2010
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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/>
Report id translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2010 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.
Index
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- SYNOPSIS
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- DESCRIPTION
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- AUTHOR
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- REPORTING BUGS
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- SEE ALSO
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