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chgrp ? change group ownership |
chgrp [OPTION]... GROUP
FILE... |
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 |
Written by David MacKenzie. |
Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>. |
Copyright © 1999 Free Software Foundation, Inc. |
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. |