ID

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: March 2004
 

NAME

id - print real and effective UIDs and GIDs  

SYNOPSIS

id [OPTION]... [USERNAME]  

DESCRIPTION

Print information for USERNAME, or the current user.

-a
ignore, for compatibility with other versions
-Z, --context
print only the security context
-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 bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  

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

should give you access to the complete manual.

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO