GROUPS(1)

📦
version 9.10 · 5 versions
, in ubuntu stonking

💅 GROUPS(1) — the manual page, but make it make sense

okay bestie, welcome to the User Commands section of the manual, where we're talking about groups ✨

🌸 NAME

groups — print the groups a user is in 🫶

✨ SYNOPSIS

groups [OPTION]... [USERNAME]...

💖 DESCRIPTION

So basically, <italic>groups</italic> prints out group memberships for each <italic>USERNAME</italic> you hand it. 💅

And if you don't give it any <italic>USERNAME</italic> at all? Then it does the thing for the current process instead — which lowkey might be different from what you'd expect, bestie, if the groups database has changed since. iykyk 😭

  • --help — display this help and exit 🎀
  • --version — output version information and exit 👑

👑 AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie and James Youngman. iconic behavior fr fr 💜

🐛 REPORTING BUGS

Found a bug? Not you being the main character of quality assurance 😌 Report bugs to: bug-coreutils@gnu.org

🦋 SEE ALSO

getent(1)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/groups>

or available locally via: info '(coreutils) groups invocation'

Packaged by Ubuntu (9.10-1ubuntu2)

Copyright © 2026 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://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. 🫶

and that's the whole page, bestie 💖 this was GNU coreutils 9.10, dated August 2026 — slay, periodt 🌈✨💅

📦 where this page comes from