Is there a whoami to find the current group I'm logged in as?

Question

I'm trying to find my current logged in group without wanting to use newgrp to switch.

Generally you belong to several groups, which you can simply find with `groups`! — cylgalad, Jan 03 '16 at 09:42

score 114 · Accepted Answer · edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:34

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I figured I can use the following.

id -g

To get all the groups I belong

id -G

And to get the actual names, instead of the ids, just pass the flag -n.

id -Gn

This last command will yield the same result as executing

groups

edited Dec 19 '18 at 11:34

yivi

answered Jan 03 '16 at 09:41

Ian F

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and id -G to the other groups you belong to. – Rui F Ribeiro Jan 03 '16 at 10:32
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Add *-n* to see group names instead of GIDs: *id -gn* and *id -Gn* respectively. – misko321 Jul 15 '16 at 11:13

Volo · Answer 2 · 2019-03-25T16:51:58.027

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To get group name needed one more flag: id -g -n

edited Mar 25 '19 at 16:51

answered Feb 15 '18 at 09:28

Volo

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