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NAME

chgrp - change the group ownership of files

SYNOPSIS

chgrp [-Rcfv] [--recursive] [--changes] [--silent] [--quiet] [--verbose] [--help] [--version] group file...

DESCRIPTION

This manual page documents the GNU version of chgrp. chgrp changes the group ownership of each given file to the named group, which can be either a group name or a numeric group ID.

OPTIONS

-c, --changes

Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actually changes.

-f, --silent, --quiet

Do not print error messages about files whose ownership cannot be changed.

-v, --verbose

Verbosely describe ownership changes.

-R, --recursive

Recursively change ownership of directories and their contents.

--help

Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

--version

Print version information on standard output then exit successfully.

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• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• OPTIONS