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groups

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: 14 Sep 1992
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NAME

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:

ATTRIBUTE TYPEATTRIBUTE VALUE
AvailabilitySUNWcsu

 

SEE ALSO

group(4), passwd(4), attributes(5)

 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
EXAMPLES
FILES
ATTRIBUTES
SEE ALSO
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