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.TH CHMOD "1" "January 2023" "GNU coreutils 9.1" "User Commands"
.SH NAME
chmod \- manual page for chmod 9.1
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chmod
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,MODE\/\fR[\fI\,,MODE\/\fR]... \fI\,FILE\/\fR...
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.B chmod
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,OCTAL-MODE FILE\/\fR...
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.B chmod
[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,--reference=RFILE FILE\/\fR...
.SH DESCRIPTION
Change the mode of each FILE to MODE.
With \fB\-\-reference\fR, change the mode 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\-\-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 mode instead of MODE values
.TP
\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
change files and directories recursively
.TP
\fB\-\-help\fR
display this help and exit
.TP
\fB\-\-version\fR
output version information and exit
.PP
Each MODE is of the form '[ugoa]*([\-+=]([rwxXst]*|[ugo]))+|[\-+=][0\-7]+'.
.PP
GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chmod>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chmod invocation'
.SH AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright \(co 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.