groups - Man Page
print the groups a user is in
Examples (TL;DR)
- Print group memberships for the current user:
groups - Print group memberships for a list of users:
groups username1 username2 ...
Synopsis
groups [OPTION]... [USERNAME]...
Description
Print group memberships for each USERNAME or, if no USERNAME is specified, for the current process (which may differ if the groups database has changed).
- --help
display this help and exit
- --version
output version information and exit
Author
Written by David MacKenzie and James Youngman.
Reporting Bugs
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Copyright
Copyright © 2024 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/groups>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) groups invocation'
Referenced By
credentials(7), group(5), procenv(1).