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CHGRP

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
AUTHOR
REPORTING BUGS
COPYRIGHT
SEE ALSO

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 © 1999 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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