chgrp

chgrp [OPTIONS]

Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.

Options

--help

Print help information

--version, -V

Print version information

--changes, -c

like verbose but report only when a change is made

--silent, -f

--quiet

suppress most error messages

--verbose, -v

output a diagnostic for every file processed

--dereference

--no-dereference, -h

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

--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

--recursive, -R

operate on files and directories recursively

-H

if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it

-P

do not traverse any symbolic links (default)

-L

traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered