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GROUPS

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: June 2025
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NAME

groups - print the groups a user is in  

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

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

SEE ALSO

getent(1)


Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/groups>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) groups 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.


 

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