CHFLAGS(1)                   BSD Reference Manual                   CHFLAGS(1)

NAME
     chflags - change file flags

SYNOPSIS
     chflags [-R] flags file ...

DESCRIPTION
     The chflags utility modifies the file flags of the listed files as speci-
     fied by the flags operand.

     The options are as follows:

     -R      Traverse a file hierarchy.  For each file that is of type direc-
             tory, chflags changes the flags of all files in the file hierar-
             chy below it followed by the flags of the directory itself.

     Symbolic links are not indirected through, nor are their flags altered.

     Only the owner of a file or the super-user is permitted to change the low
     16-bits in the flags of a file.  Only the the super-user is permitted to
     change the high 16-bits in the flags of a file.

     The chflags utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

FLAGS
     Flags may be absolute or symbolic.  An absolute flag is an octal number
     constructed by or'ing the following values:

           1       the file should never be dumped

     The symbolic flags is a comma separated list of keywords.  The following
     keywords are defined:

           dump         cause the file to be dumped when it is next modified

     Putting the word ``no'' before an option causes it to be deleted.  For
     example:

           nodump       the file should never be dumped

SEE ALSO
     chflags(2),  stat(2),  fts(3)

BSDI BSD/386                    March 27, 1993                               1