NAME¶

chgrp - Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.

SYNOPSIS¶

chgrp [--help] [-c|--changes] [-f|--silent] [--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [--preserve-root] [--no-preserve-root] [--reference] [--from] [-R|--recursive] [-H ] [-L ] [-P ] [--dereference] [-h|--no-dereference] [-V|--version]

DESCRIPTION¶

Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.

OPTIONS¶

--help

Print help information.

-c, --changes

like verbose but report only when a change is made

-f, --silent

--quiet

suppress most error messages

-v, --verbose

output a diagnostic for every file processed

--preserve-root

fail to operate recursively on '/'

--no-preserve-root

do not treat '/' specially (the default)

--reference <RFILE>

use RFILE's group rather than specifying GROUP values

--from <GROUP>

change the group only if its current group matches GROUP

-R, --recursive

operate on files and directories recursively

-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)

--dereference

affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself

-h, --no-dereference

affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)

-V, --version

Print version

VERSION¶

v(uutils coreutils) 0.7.0

EXAMPLES¶

Change the owner group of a file/directory:

chgrp group path/to/file_or_directory

Recursively change the owner group of a directory and its contents:

chgrp [-R|--recursive] group path/to/directory

Change the owner group of a symbolic link:

chgrp [-h|--no-dereference] group path/to/symlink

Change the owner group of a file/directory to match a reference file:

chgrp --reference path/to/reference_file path/to/file_or_directory

The examples are provided by the tldr-pages project <https://tldr.sh> under the CC BY 4.0 License. Please note that, as uutils is a work in progress, some examples might fail.