chgrp — change group ownership
Examples (TL;DR)
-
Change the owner group of a file/directory:
chgrp group path/to/file_or_directory -
Recursively change the owner group of a directory and its contents:
chgrp -R group path/to/directory -
Change the owner group of a symbolic link:
chgrp -h group path/to/symlink -
Change the owner group of a file/directory to match a reference file:
chgrp --reference=path/to/reference_file path/to/file_or_directory
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/>
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Copyright
Copyright © 2019 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
Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chgrp>
or available locally via: info '(coreutils) chgrp invocation'
Referenced By
ch-grow(1), chown(2), cloginrc(5), group(5), shtool-install(1), shtool-mkdir(1), shtool-rotate(1), symlink(7).