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id(1) General Commands Manual id(1)

NAME

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

SYNOPSIS

id [-A ] [-u|--user] [-g|--group] [-G|--groups] [-p ] [-n|--name] [-P ] [-r|--real] [-z|--zero] [-Z|--context] [-h|--help] [-V|--version] [USER]

DESCRIPTION

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

OPTIONS

Display the process audit user ID and other process audit properties, which requires privilege (not available on Linux).
Display only the effective user ID as a number.
Display only the effective group ID as a number
Display only the different group IDs as white-space separated numbers, in no particular order.
Make the output human-readable. Each display is on a separate line.
Display the name of the user or group ID for the -G, -g and -u options instead of the number. If any of the ID numbers cannot be mapped into names, the number will be displayed as usual.
Display the id as a password file entry.
Display the real ID for the -G, -g and -u options instead of the effective ID.
delimit entries with NUL characters, not whitespace; not permitted in default format
print only the security context of the process (not enabled)
Print help
Print version
[USER]

VERSION

v0.0.26

id 0.0.26