groups(1)

groups1

Show group memberships

Usage

groups [user]

Overview

The groups utility has been obsoleted by the id(1) utility, and is equivalent to “id -Gn [user]”. The command “id -p” is suggested for normal interactive use.

The groups utility displays the groups to which you (or the optionally specified user) belong.

Exit status

The groups utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

Examples

Show groups the root user belongs to:

$ groups root
wheel operator

Releases

87 releases since FreeBSD 2.0.5-RELEASE; the text changed 41 times.

  1. 2.0.5–2.2.2
  2. 2.2.5–3.5.1
  3. 4.0
  4. 4.1–4.2
  5. 4.3
  6. 4.4–4.11
  7. 5.0–5.5
  8. 6.0–6.3
  9. 6.4
  10. 7.0
  11. 7.1
  12. 7.2
  13. 7.3
  14. 7.4
  15. 8.0
  16. 8.1
  17. 8.2
  18. 8.3
  19. 8.4
  20. 9.0
  21. 9.1
  22. 9.2
  23. 9.3
  24. 10.0
  25. 10.1
  26. 10.2
  27. 10.3
  28. 10.4
  29. 11.0
  30. 11.1
  31. 11.2
  32. 11.3
  33. 11.4
  34. 12.0
  35. 12.1
  36. 12.2
  37. 12.3
  38. 12.4
  39. 13.0–13.2
  40. 13.3–14.5
  41. 15.0
  42. 15.1–16.0

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