Manual: chmod

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NAME
       chmod - Change the mode of each FILE to MODE.  With --reference, change the mode of each FILE to that of RFILE.

SYNOPSIS
       chmod  [--help]	[-c|--changes]	[-f|--quiet]  [-v|--verbose] [--no-preserve-root] [--preserve-root] [-R|--recursive]
       [--reference] [-H ] [-L ] [-P ] [--dereference] [-h|--no-dereference] [-V|--version] [MODE] [FILE]

DESCRIPTION
       Change the mode of each FILE to MODE.  With --reference, change the mode of each FILE to that of RFILE.

OPTIONS
       --help Print help information.

       -c, --changes
	      like verbose but report only when a change is made

       -f, --quiet
	      suppress most error messages

       -v, --verbose
	      output a diagnostic for every file processed

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

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

       -R, --recursive
	      change files and directories recursively

       --reference
	      use RFILE's mode instead of MODE values

       -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

       [MODE]

       [FILE]

EXTRA
       Each MODE is of the form [ugoa]*([-+=]([rwxXst]*|[ugo]))+|[-+=]?[0-7]+.

VERSION
       v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0

							 2026-04-16						    CHMOD(1)