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GROUPS(1)                                           User Commands                                           GROUPS(1)



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

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

AUTHOR
       Written by David MacKenzie and James Youngman.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright   ©   2013   Free   Software   Foundation,  Inc.   License  GPLv3+:  GNU  GPL  version  3  or  later
       <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
       This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.  There is NO WARRANTY, to the  extent  per‐
       mitted by law.

SEE ALSO
       The  full  documentation  for  groups  is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the info and groups programs are
       properly installed at your site, the command

              info coreutils 'groups invocation'

       should give you access to the complete manual.



GNU coreutils 8.22                                  November 2016                                           GROUPS(1)