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User Commandsgroups(1)


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)


SunOS 5.9Go To TopLast Changed 14 Sep 1992

 
      
      
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