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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.50.1.
.TH ID "1" "February 2026" "GNU coreutils 9.10" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
id \- print real and effective user and group IDs
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B id
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,USER\/\fR]...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" Add any additional description here
.PP
Print user and group information for each specified USER,
or (when USER omitted) for the current process.
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#id-a'\fB\-a\fP\X'tty: link'
ignore, for compatibility with other versions
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#id-Z'\fB\-Z, \-\-context\fP\X'tty: link'
print only the security context of the process
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#id-g'\fB\-g, \-\-group\fP\X'tty: link'
print only the effective group ID
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#id-G'\fB\-G, \-\-groups\fP\X'tty: link'
print all group IDs
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#id-n'\fB\-n, \-\-name\fP\X'tty: link'
print a name instead of a number, for \fB\-u\fR,\-g,\-G
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#id-r'\fB\-r, \-\-real\fP\X'tty: link'
print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with \fB\-u\fR,\-g,\-G
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#id-u'\fB\-u, \-\-user\fP\X'tty: link'
print only the effective user ID
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/coreutils.html#id-z'\fB\-z, \-\-zero\fP\X'tty: link'
delimit entries with NUL characters, not whitespace;
not permitted in default format
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/id#id--help'\fB\-\-help\fP\X'tty: link'
display this help and exit
.TP
\X'tty: link https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/id#id--version'\fB\-\-version\fP\X'tty: link'
output version information and exit
.PP
Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified information.
.SH AUTHOR
Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to: bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
.br
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
.br
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.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/id>
.br
or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) id invocation\(aq
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