groups(1)

Name | Synopsis | Description | Examples | Files | Attributes | See Also

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 TYPE	ATTRIBUTE VALUE
Availability	SUNWcsu

See Also

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

SunOS 5.10  Last Revised 14 Sep 1992

Name | Synopsis | Description | Examples | Files | Attributes | See Also