id (1)
NAME
id - print real and effective user and group IDsSYNOPSIS
id [OPTION]... [USERNAME]DESCRIPTION
Print user and group information for the specified USERNAME, or (when USERNAME 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
- --help
- display this help and exit
- --version
- 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
Report id bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.orgGNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report id translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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.