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chgrp

change group ownership

Synopsis

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


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chgrp staff /u

Change the group of /u to "staff".

chgrp -hR staff /u

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


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chgrp byobushared /tmp/byobu-shared.session

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 is the 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 the ownership 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 a GROUP value

-R, --recursive

operate on files and directories recursively

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

copyright

Copyright © 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://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.

reporting bugs

Report chgrp bugs to bug-coreutils[:at:]gnu[:dot:]org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
Report chgrp translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>


see also

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 coreutils 'chgrp invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.


author

Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

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