groups
- print group membership of user
Synopsis
groups [user]...
Description
The command groups prints on standard output the groups to which you
or the optionally specified user belong. Each user belongs to a group
specified in /etc/passwd and possibly to other groups as specified in
/etc/group. Note that /etc/passwd specifies the numerical ID (gid) of the group.
The groups command converts gid to the group name in the output.
Examples
The output takes the following form:
example% groups tester01 tester02
tester01 : staff
tester02 : staff
example%
Files
- /etc/passwd
- /etc/group
Attributes
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes:
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Availability |
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See Also
group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5)
