


CHGRP(1L)						CHGRP(1L)


NNAAMMEE
       chgrp - change the group ownership of files

SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
       cchhggrrpp   [-Rcfv]	[--recursive]	[--changes]   [--silent]
       [--quiet] [--verbose] [--help] [--version] group file...

DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
       This manual page	documents  the	GNU  version  of  cchhggrrpp.
       cchhggrrpp  changes  the  group ownership of each given file to
       the named group, which can be either a  group  name  or	a
       numeric group ID.

   OOPPTTIIOONNSS
       _-_c_, _-_-_c_h_a_n_g_e_s
	      Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actu-
	      ally changes.

       _-_f_, _-_-_s_i_l_e_n_t_, _-_-_q_u_i_e_t
	      Do not print error messages about files whose  own-
	      ership cannot be changed.

       _-_v_, _-_-_v_e_r_b_o_s_e
	      Verbosely describe ownership changes.

       _-_R_, _-_-_r_e_c_u_r_s_i_v_e
	      Recursively  change  ownership  of  directories and
	      their contents.

       _-_-_h_e_l_p Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero sta-
	      tus.

       _-_-_v_e_r_s_i_o_n
	      Print  version  information  on standard error then
	      exit.






















FSF			GNU File Utilities			1


