GNU/Linux |
Ubuntu 9.04(Jaunty Jackalope) |
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id(1) |
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id − print user identity
id [OPTION]... [USERNAME]
Print information for USERNAME, or 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.
Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.
Report bugs to <bug−coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright
© 2008 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.
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.
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