NAME¶

id - print real and effective user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS¶

id [OPTION]... [USER]

DESCRIPTION¶

Print user and group information for the specified USER, or (when USER 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

-z, --zero

delimit entries with NUL characters, not whitespace;

not permitted in default format

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified information.

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report id translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

AUTHOR¶

Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.

COPYRIGHT¶

Copyright © 2013 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.