GCHGRP

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NAME

chgrp - change the group ownership of files  

SYNOPSIS

chgrp [-LRcfv] [+recursive] [+show-changes] [+dereference] [+silent] [+quiet] [+verbose] group file...  

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the GNU version of chgrp. chgrp changes the group ownership of each given file to the named group, which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.  

OPTIONS

-c, +show-changes
Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actually changes.
-f, +silent, +quiet
Do not print error messages about files whose ownership cannot be changed.
-v, +verbose
Verbosely describe ownership changes.
-L, +dereference
Dereference symbolic links (recursively change the ownership of directories pointed to by symbolic links).
-R, +recursive
Recursively change ownership of directories.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS

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