groups - Man Page

print the groups a user is in

Examples (TL;DR)

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.

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See Also

getent(1)

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).

January 2024 GNU coreutils 9.4