id

Options

-A

id-help-audit

--user, -u

id-help-user

--group, -g

id-help-group

--groups, -G

id-help-groups

-p

id-help-human-readable

--name, -n

id-help-name

-P

id-help-password

--real, -r

id-help-real

--zero, -z

id-help-zero

--context, -Z

id-context-help-enabled

Examples

Display current user's ID (UID), group ID (GID) and groups to which they belong:

id

Display the current user identity:

id {{[-un|--user --name]}}

Display the current user identity as a number:

id {{[-u|--user]}}

Display the current primary group identity:

id {{[-gn|--group --name]}}

Display the current primary group identity as a number:

id {{[-g|--group]}}

Display an arbitrary user's ID (UID), group ID (GID) and groups to which they belong:

id {{username}}

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project under the CC BY 4.0 License.

Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.