groups's Examples

by using this command we can get groups under that username

groups linux

no username is passed then this command will display group membership for the current user

$ groups

it id of linux group

$ id linux

it gives all the group names 

$ id -ng

by using this we can get the list of all groups 

getent groups

print the first field containg the group name

$getent group| awk -F:  '{print $1}'

cuts the first filed and displays only the group name

$ getent group cut -d: -f1

Example Output:

devops sudo docker
Explanation:
Displays all groups the current user belongs to.

groups

Output Example:

alice : alice developers sudo
 

Explanation:
Shows all groups that alice belongs to.

groups username

Output Example:

root : root admin sudo
 

Explanation:
Displays all groups assigned to the root user.

sudo groups root

Explanation:
Displays all system groups and their members.

getent group

Example:

groups alice | grep -w sudo

Explanation:
Checks if alice belongs to the sudo group.

groups username | grep -w groupname

Output Example:

sudo:x:27:alice,bob,admin

Explanation:
Shows all users in the sudo group

getent group sudo

Explanation:
Adds user alice to the docker group.

sudo usermod -aG docker alice

Explanation:
Removes user alice from the developers group.

sudo deluser alice developers

Example:

id -gn bob

Output Example:

bob

Explanation:
Shows the primary group of user bob.

id -gn username

Example:

id -G -n alice

Output Example:

alice developers sudo

Explanation:
Displays group names instead of numeric IDs.

id -G -n username

Displays the groups a user belongs to.

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