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id - print real and effective user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS

id [OPTION]... [USER]...

DESCRIPTION

Print user and group information for each specified USER, or (when USER omitted) for the current process.

-a     ignore, for compatibility with other versions

-Z, --context
print only the security context of the process

-g, --group
print only the effective group ID

-G, --groups
print all group IDs

-n, --name
print a name instead of a number, for -u,-g,-G

-r, --real
print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -u,-g,-G

-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.

AUTHOR

Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS

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SEE ALSO

Full documentation [https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/id] or available locally via: info '(coreutils) id invocation'

Packaged by Debian (9.7-3) Copyright © 2025 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.