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CHGRP

Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: October 2021
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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

-f, --silent, --quiet

suppress most error messages

-v, --verbose

output a diagnostic for every file processed

--dereference

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

-h, --no-dereference

affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file(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 '/'

--reference=,RFILE/

use RFILE's group rather than specifying aGROUP value

-R, --recursive

operate on files and directories recursively

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

GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/> 

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2020 Free Software Foundation, Inc.License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law. 

SEE ALSO

chown(1), chown(2)

Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chgrp>
or available locally via: info aq(coreutils) chgrp invocationaq

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SYNOPSIS

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REPORTING BUGS

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