Scroll to navigation

chgrp(1) General Commands Manual chgrp(1)

NAME

chgrp - Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.

SYNOPSIS

chgrp [--help] [-c|--changes] [-f|--silent] [--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [--dereference] [-h|--no-dereference] [--preserve-root] [--no-preserve-root] [--reference] [-R|--recursive] [-H ] [-P ] [-L ] [-V|--version]

DESCRIPTION

Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.

OPTIONS

Print help information.
like verbose but report only when a change is made

suppress most error messages
output a diagnostic for every file processed

affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)
fail to operate recursively on '/'
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
use RFILE's group rather than specifying GROUP values
operate on files and directories recursively
if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it
do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
Print version

VERSION

v0.0.26

chgrp 0.0.26