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.

REPORTING BUGS¶

Report bugs to: <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Report any translation bugs to: <https://translationproject.org/team/>.
GNU coreutils home page: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <https://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>

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'