id(1)

id1

Print real and effective user and group ids

Usage

id [OPTION] ... [USER] ...

Overview

Print user and group information for each specified USER, or (when USER omitted) for the current process.

-a

ignore, for compatibility with other versions

-Z, --context

print only the security context of the process

-g, --group

print only the effective group ID

-G, --groups

print all group IDs

-n, --name

print a name instead of a number, for -u, -g, -G

-r, --real

print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -u, -g, -G

-u, --user

print only the effective user ID

-z, --zero

delimit entries with NUL characters, not whitespace; not permitted in default format

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

Without any OPTION, print some useful set of identified information.

Releases

19 releases since Debian 1.1 (Buzz); the text changed 15 times.

  1. 1.1–1.2
  2. 1.3–2.1
  3. 2.2
  4. 3.0
  5. 3.1
  6. 4.0
  7. 5.0
  8. 6.0
  9. 7
  10. 8
  11. 9
  12. 10
  13. 11
  14. 12
  15. 13
  16. Arch

--context since Debian 4.0 (Etch); --zero since Debian 8 (Jessie); -Z since Debian 4.0 (Etch); -a since Debian 2.2 (Potato); -z since Debian 8 (Jessie).

Author

Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.

Reporting bugs

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From coreutils 9.12-2 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.