ID

ID

NAME SYNOPSIS DESCRIPTION AUTHOR REPORTING BUGS COPYRIGHT SEE ALSO

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

-g, --group

print only the group ID

-G, --groups

print only the supplementary groups

-n, --name

print a name instead of a number, for -ugG

-r, --real

print the real ID instead of effective ID, for -ugG

-u, --user

print only the 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

COPYRIGHT

Copyright 2000 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 id

should give you access to the complete manual.