To get the OS current user group id or (gid
) in Node.js, you can use the userInfo()
method from the os
module and then use the gid
property from the object returned.
// require os module
const os = require("os");
// invoke userInfo() method
const userInfo = os.userInfo();
// get gid property
// from the userInfo object
const gid = userInfo.gid;
console.log(gid); // 20
See the above code live in repl.it.
That's all! 😃