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chgrp - change group ownership
chgrp [OPTION]... GROUP FILE...
chgrp [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
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, rather than the symbolic link
itself (this is the default)
- -h, --no-dereference
- affect each symbolic link
instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change
the ownership 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
the specifying GROUP 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 -R option
is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the final one takes
effect.
- -H
- if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory,
traverse it
- -L
- traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
- -P
- do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
- --help
- display this help and
exit
- --version
- output version information and exit
Written by David
MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.
Copyright © 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is
NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
The full documentation for chgrp is maintained as a Texinfo manual.
If the info and chgrp programs are properly installed at your site, the
command
- info chgrp
should give you access to the complete manual.
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