.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.28. .TH CHGRP "1" "July 2002" "chgrp (fileutils) 4.1.10" "User Commands" .SH NAME chgrp \- change group ownership .SH SYNOPSIS .B chgrp [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIGROUP FILE\fR... .br .B chgrp [\fIOPTION\fR]... \fI--reference=RFILE FILE\fR... .SH DESCRIPTION .\" Add any additional description here .PP Change the group membership of each FILE to GROUP. .TP \fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-changes\fR like verbose but report only when a change is made .TP \fB\-\-dereference\fR affect the referent of each symbolic link, rather than the symbolic link itself .TP \fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-no\-dereference\fR affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (available only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink) .TP \fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR suppress most error messages .TP \fB\-\-reference\fR=\fIRFILE\fR use RFILE's group rather than the specified GROUP value .TP \fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR operate on files and directories recursively .TP \fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR output a diagnostic for every file processed .TP \fB\-\-help\fR display this help and exit .TP \fB\-\-version\fR output version information and exit .SH AUTHOR Written by David MacKenzie. .SH "REPORTING BUGS" Report bugs to . .SH COPYRIGHT Copyright \(co 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc. .br This is free software; see the source for copying conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. .SH "SEE ALSO" The full documentation for .B chgrp is maintained as a Texinfo manual. If the .B info and .B chgrp programs are properly installed at your site, the command .IP .B info chgrp .PP should give you access to the complete manual.