Manual page for groups(1)
groups - print group membership of user
SYNOPSIS
groups
[
user...
]
AVAILABILITY
SUNWcsu
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.
EXAMPLE
The output takes the following form:
-
example% groups tester01 tester02
tester01 : staff
tester02 : staff
example%
FILES
/etc/passwd
/etc/group
SEE ALSO
group.4
passwd.4
Created by unroff & hp-tools.
© by Hans-Peter Bischof. All Rights Reserved (1997).
Last modified 21/April/97
