ID(1)

NAME
id - print real and effective user and group IDs

SYNOPSIS
id [OPTION]... [USERNAME]

DESCRIPTION

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

-a  ignore, for compatibility with other versions

-Z, --context
    print only the security context of the current user

-g, --group
    print only the effective group ID

-G, --groups
    print all group IDs

-n, --name
    print a name instead of a number, for -ugG

-r, --real
    print the real ID instead of the effective ID, with -ugG

-u, --user
    print only the effective user ID

--help
    display this help and exit

--version
    output version information and exit

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

AUTHOR
Written by Arnold Robbins and David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
Report id bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report id translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO
The full documentation for id is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the info and id programs are properly installed at your site, the command

    info coreutils 'id invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.