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GROUPS 1 "Sep 14, 1992"
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

SEE ALSO

group (5), passwd (5), attributes (7)