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CHGRP

Section: FSF (1)
Updated: March 2002
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NAME

chgrp - change group ownership  

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

Change the group membership of each FILE to GROUP.

-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
-h, --no-dereference
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (available only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)
-f, --silent, --quiet
suppress most error messages
--reference=RFILE
use RFILE's group rather than the specified GROUP value
-R, --recursive
operate on files and directories recursively
-v, --verbose
output a diagnostic for every file processed
--help
display this help and exit
--version
output version information and exit
 

AUTHOR

Written by David MacKenzie.  

REPORTING BUGS

Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.  

COPYRIGHT

Copyright © 2001 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.  

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 chgrp

should give you access to the complete manual.


 

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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