User Commands                                               ID(1)



NAME
     id - print user identity

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 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

     --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 O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
     The full documentation for id is  maintained  as  a  Texinfo
     manual.   If the info and id programs are properly installed



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     at your site, the command

          info id

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.


































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