chgrp

CHGRP(1)                              FSF                             CHGRP(1)



NAME
       chgrp - change group ownership

SYNOPSIS
       chgrp [OPTION]... GROUP FILE...
       chgrp [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...

DESCRIPTION
       Change the group membership of each FILE to GROUP.

       -c, --changes
              like verbose but report only when a change is made

       --dereference
              affect  the referent of each symbolic link, rather than the sym-
              bolic link itself

       -h, --no-dereference
              affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file  (available
              only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)

       -f, --silent, --quiet
              suppress most error messages

       --reference=RFILE
              use RFILE's group rather than the specified GROUP value

       -R, --recursive
              operate on files and directories recursively

       -v, --verbose
              output a diagnostic for every file processed

       --help display this help and exit

       --version
              output version information and exit

AUTHOR
       Written by David MacKenzie.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to <bug-coreutils@gnu.org>.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is
       NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR  A  PARTICULAR
       PURPOSE.

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.



chgrp (coreutils) 4.5.3          October 2003                         CHGRP(1)