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ID(1) User Commands ID(1)

id - print real and effective user and group IDs

id [OPTION]... [USER]

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

GNU coreutils online help: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/> Report id translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.

Copyright © 2013 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.

November 2020 GNU coreutils 8.22

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