CHGRP

NAME

SYNOPSIS

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

--dereference

affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself

-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 specifying a 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

EXAMPLES

chgrp staff /u

Change the group of /u to "staff".

chgrp -hR staff /u

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

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO

info coreutils 'chgrp invocation'

should give you access to the complete manual.

Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

EXAMPLES

AUTHOR

REPORTING BUGS

COPYRIGHT

SEE ALSO