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ID(1) User Commands ID(1)

NAME

id - print real and effective user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS

id [OPTION]... [USER]...

DESCRIPTION

Print user and group information for each specified USER, or (when USER omitted) for the current process.

ignore, for compatibility with other versions
print only the security context of the process
print only the effective group ID
print all group IDs
print a name instead of a number, for -ugG
print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -ugG
print only the effective user ID
delimit entries with NUL characters, not whitespace;
not permitted in default format
display this help and exit
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

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COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/id>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) id invocation'

September 2022 GNU coreutils 9.1