CHGRP
Section: User Commands (1)
Updated: December 2009
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NAME
chgrp - change group ownership
SYNOPSIS
chgrp
[OPTION]... GROUP FILE...
chgrp
[OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
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
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
REPORTING BUGS
Report chgrp bugs to bug-coreutils@gnu.org
GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2009 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.
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 aqchgrp invocationaq
should give you access to the complete manual.