chgrp
change the file group ownership
TLDR
Change the owner group of a file/directory
Recursively change the owner group of a directory and its contents
Change the owner group of a symbolic link
Change the owner group of a file/directory to match a reference file
SYNOPSIS
chgrp [OPTION]... GROUP
FILE...
chgrp [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE
FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Change the group of each FILE to GROUP. With --reference, change the group of each FILE to that of RFILE.
- -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
- --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)
- --no-preserve-root
-
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
- --preserve-root
-
fail to operate recursively on '/'
- --reference=RFILE
-
use RFILE's group rather than specifying a GROUP value
- -R, --recursive
-
operate on files and directories recursively
The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the -R option is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the final one takes effect.
- -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)
- --help
-
display this help and exit
- --version
-
output version information and exit
EXAMPLES
- chgrp staff /u
-
Change the group of /u to "staff".
- chgrp -hR staff /u
-
Change the group of /u and subfiles to "staff".
REPORTING BUGS
GNU coreutils online help:
<https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
Report any translation bugs to
<https://translationproject.org/team/>
COPYRIGHT
Copyright © 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc. License GPLv3+: GNU
GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There
is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
SEE ALSO
chown(1), chown(2) Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chgrp> or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chgrp invocation'
AUTHOR
Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.