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groups: Print group memberships for the current user.
$ groups
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The "groups" command is used in Unix-like operating systems to display the groups to which a user belongs.
When you execute the "groups" command, it retrieves the information about the user's group memberships from the system's group database (/etc/group file) and displays a list of all the groups in which the user is a member. Each group name is separated by spaces on the output.
This command is helpful to quickly identify the groups a user is associated with, which can be useful for troubleshooting permission issues or verifying the user's access to certain resources and files on a system.
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