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CHGRP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: September 2007
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NAME

chgrp - change group ownership 

SYNOPSIS

chgrp[OPTION]... GROUP FILE...
chgrp[OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE... 

DESCRIPTION

Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.With --reference, change the group of each FILE to that of RFILE.

-c, --changes

like verbose but report only when a change is made

--dereference

affect the referent of each symbolic link (this isthe default), rather than the symbolic link itself

-h, --no-dereference

affect each symbolic link instead of any referencedfile (useful only on systems that can change theownership of a symlink)

--no-preserve-root

do not treat `/' specially (the default)

--preserve-root

fail to operate recursively on `/'

-f, --silent, --quiet

suppress most error messages

--reference=RFILE

use RFILE's group rather than specifying aGROUP value

-R, --recursive

operate on files and directories recursively

-v, --verbose

output a diagnostic for every file processed

The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the -Roption is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the finalone takes effect.

-H

if a command line argument is a symbolic linkto a directory, traverse it

-L

traverse every symbolic link to a directoryencountered

-P

do not traverse any symbolic links (default)

--help

display this help and exit

--version

output version information and exit

 

EXAMPLES

chgrp staff /u

Change the group of /u to "staff".

chgrp -hR staff /u

Change the group of /u and subfiles to "staff".

 

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering. 

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-coreutilsAATTgnu.org>. 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms ofthe GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 

SEE ALSO

The full documentation forchgrpis maintained as a Texinfo manual. If theinfoandchgrpprograms are properly installed at your site, the command

info chgrp

should give you access to the complete manual.

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLES

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO

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