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.