GROUPS(1) General Commands Manual GROUPS(1)NAME
groups - show group memberships
SYNOPSIS
groups [user]
DESCRIPTION
The groups command shows the groups to which you or the optionally specified user belong. Each user belongs to a group specified in the
password file /etc/passwd and possibly to other groups as specified in the file /etc/group. If you do not own a file but belong to the
group which it is owned by then you are granted group access to the file.
When a new file is created it is given the group of the containing directory.
SEE ALSO setgroups(2)FILES
/etc/passwd, /etc/group
BUGS
More groups should be allowed.
4.2 Berkeley Distribution April 29, 1985 GROUPS(1)
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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 5.11 14 Sep 1992 groups(1)
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