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NAME | SYNOPSIS | DESCRIPTION | AUTHOR | REPORTING BUGS | COPYRIGHT | SEE ALSO | COLOPHON 

GROUPS(1)                     User Commands                    GROUPS(1)

NAME         top

       groups - print the groups a user is in

SYNOPSIS         top

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

DESCRIPTION         top

       Print group memberships for each USERNAME or, if no USERNAME is
       specified, for the current process (which may differ if the
       groups database has changed).

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

AUTHOR         top

       Written by David MacKenzie and James Youngman.

REPORTING BUGS         top

       GNU coreutils online help:
       <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
       Report any translation bugs to
       <https://translationproject.org/team/>

COPYRIGHT         top

       Copyright © 2024 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.

SEE ALSO         top

       getent(1)

       Full documentation
       <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/groups>
       or available locally via: info '(coreutils) groups invocation'

COLOPHON         top

       This page is part of the coreutils (basic file, shell and text
       manipulation utilities) project.  Information about the project
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GNU coreutils 9.5              March 2024                      GROUPS(1)

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