User Commands                                            CHGRP(1)



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 owner-
          ship 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)




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User Commands                                            CHGRP(1)



     --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 bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
     Copyright O 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
     This is free software.  You may redistribute  copies  of  it
     under   the   terms   of  the  GNU  General  Public  License
     .  There  is  NO  WAR-
     RANTY, 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 chgrp

     should give you access to the complete manual.

ATRIBUTES
     See attributes(5) for descriptions of the  following  attri-
     butes:

     
       ATRIBUTE TYPE      ATRIBUTE VALUE  
    
     Availability         SUNWgnu-coreutils 
    
     Interface Stability  Uncommitted       
    

NOTES
     Source    for    GNU    coreutils    is     available     on
     http:/opensolaris.org.





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