groups

Examples (TL;DR)

• Print group memberships for the current user: groups
• Print group memberships for a specific user: groups username
• Print group memberships for a list of users: groups username1 username2 username3

tldr.sh

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 © 2019 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

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).