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.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35.
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.TH CHGRP "1" "October 2012" "GNU coreutils 8.20" "User Commands"
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chgrp \- change group ownership
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[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIGROUP FILE\fR...
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[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fI--reference=RFILE FILE\fR...
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.\" Add any additional description here
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Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.
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With \fB\-\-reference\fR, change the group of each FILE to that of RFILE.
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\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-changes\fR
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like verbose but report only when a change is made
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\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
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suppress most error messages
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\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
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output a diagnostic for every file processed
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affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is
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the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
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\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-no\-dereference\fR
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affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
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(useful only on systems that can change the
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ownership of a symlink)
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\fB\-\-no\-preserve\-root\fR
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do not treat '/' specially (the default)
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\fB\-\-preserve\-root\fR
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fail to operate recursively on '/'
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\fB\-\-reference\fR=\fIRFILE\fR
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use RFILE's group rather than specifying a
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\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
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operate on files and directories recursively
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The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the \fB\-R\fR
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option is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the final
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if a command line argument is a symbolic link
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to a directory, traverse it
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traverse every symbolic link to a directory
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do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
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display this help and exit
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output version information and exit
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Change the group of /u to "staff".
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chgrp \fB\-hR\fR staff /u
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Change the group of /u and subfiles to "staff".
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Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
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Report chgrp bugs to bug\-coreutils@gnu.org
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GNU coreutils home page: <http://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
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General help using GNU software: <http://www.gnu.org/gethelp/>
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Report chgrp translation bugs to <http://translationproject.org/team/>
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Copyright \(co 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
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This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
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There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
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The full documentation for
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is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the
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programs are properly installed at your site, the command
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.B info coreutils \(aqchgrp invocation\(aq
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should give you access to the complete manual.
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