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rated 0 times [ 434] [ 0] / answers: 1 / hits: 638186 / 2 Years ago, thu, august 11, 2022, 10:18:23

The title says it all. What command I need to run from a terminal to find my user ID (UID)?

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answered 2 Years ago hamostic · Accepted Answer

There are a couple of ways:

Using the id command you can get the real and effective user and group IDs.
```
 id -u <username>
```
If no username is supplied to id, it will default to the current user.

Using the shell variable. (It is not an environment variable, and thus is not available in env).
```
 echo $UID
```