Manual: chgrp

CHGRP(1)					   General Commands Manual					    CHGRP(1)

NAME
       chgrp - Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.

SYNOPSIS
       chgrp [--help] [-c|--changes] [-f|--silent] [--quiet] [-v|--verbose] [--preserve-root] [--no-preserve-root] [--refer‐
       ence] [--from] [-R|--recursive] [-H ] [-L ] [-P ] [--dereference] [-h|--no-dereference] [-V|--version]

DESCRIPTION
       Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.

OPTIONS
       --help Print help information.

       -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

       --preserve-root
	      fail to operate recursively on '/'

       --no-preserve-root
	      do not treat '/' specially (the default)

       --reference 
	      use RFILE's group rather than specifying GROUP values

       --from 
	      change the group only if its current group matches GROUP

       -R, --recursive
	      operate on files and directories recursively

       -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)

       --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)

       -V, --version
	      Print version

VERSION
       v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0

							 2026-04-16						    CHGRP(1)