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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5.
.TH CHGRP "1" "August 2023" "GNU coreutils 9.4" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
chgrp \- change group ownership
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chgrp
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,GROUP FILE\/\fR...
.br
.B chgrp
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,--reference=RFILE FILE\/\fR...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.\" Add any additional description here
.PP
Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.
With \fB\-\-reference\fR, change the group of each FILE to that of RFILE.
.TP
\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-changes\fR
like verbose but report only when a change is made
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
suppress most error messages
.TP
\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
output a diagnostic for every file processed
.TP
\fB\-\-dereference\fR
affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is
the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
.TP
\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-no\-dereference\fR
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
(useful only on systems that can change the
ownership of a symlink)
.TP
\fB\-\-no\-preserve\-root\fR
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
.TP
\fB\-\-preserve\-root\fR
fail to operate recursively on '/'
.TP
\fB\-\-reference\fR=\fI\,RFILE\/\fR
use RFILE's group rather than specifying a GROUP.
RFILE is always dereferenced if a symbolic link.
.TP
\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
operate on files and directories recursively
.PP
The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the \fB\-R\fR
option is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the final
one takes effect.
.TP
\fB\-H\fR
if a command line argument is a symbolic link
to a directory, traverse it
.TP
\fB\-L\fR
traverse every symbolic link to a directory
encountered
.TP
\fB\-P\fR
do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.SH EXAMPLES
.TP
chgrp staff /u
Change the group of /u to "staff".
.TP
chgrp \-hR staff /u
Change the group of /u and subfiles to "staff".
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
.br
Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2023 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
.br
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
\fBchown\fP(1), \fBchown\fP(2)
.PP
.br
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chgrp>
.br
or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) chgrp invocation\(aq
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