chgrp - chgrp

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  Arguments:  OPTIONS 

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NAME

chgrp − chgrp

SYNOPSIS

chgrp [OPTION]... GROUP FILE...

DESCRIPTION

Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.

chgrp [OPTION]... −−reference=RFILE FILE...

Arguments:

<GROUP> <FILE>...

OPTIONS

−−help

Print help information.

−c, −−changes

like verbose but report only when a change is made

−f, −−silent

−−quiet

suppress most error messages

−v, −−verbose

output a diagnostic for every file processed

−−preserve−root

fail to operate recursively on ’/’

−−no−preserve−root

do not treat ’/’ specially (the default)

−−reference <RFILE>

use RFILE’s group rather than specifying GROUP values

−−from <GROUP>

change the group only if its current group matches GROUP

−R, −−recursive

operate on files and directories recursively

	−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)

−−dereference

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

−h, −−no−dereference

affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)

−V, −−version

Print version

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