id

id

The "id" command is used in Linux systems to retrieve user and group identity information. By running the "id" command, you can obtain details about the current user or specify a username to retrieve information about a specific user.

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Usage: id [OPTION]... [USER]...
Print user and group information for each 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 process
  -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: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/id>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) id invocation'

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