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
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and James Youngman.
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COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
getent(1)
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/groups>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) groups invocation'
GNU coreutils 9.10 March 2026 groups(1)
coreutils 9.10 - Generated Thu Apr 2 13:45:02 CDT 2026