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NAME
       chgrp - change group ownership

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

       --dereference
	      affect the referent of each symbolic link, rather than the sym-
	      bolic link itself (this is the default)

       -h, --no-dereference
	      affect  each symbolic link instead of any referenced file (use-
	      ful 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 '/'

       -f, --silent, --quiet
	      suppress most error messages

       --reference=RFILE
	      use RFILE's group rather than the specifying GROUP value

       -R, --recursive
	      operate on files and directories recursively

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

       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

AUTHOR
       Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.

REPORTING BUGS
       Report bugs to .

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (C) 2004 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
       This is free software; see the source for copying  conditions.	There
       is NO warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICU-
       LAR PURPOSE.

SEE ALSO
       The full documentation for chgrp is maintained as  a  Texinfo  manual.
       If  the	info  and chgrp programs are properly installed at your site,
       the command

	      info coreutils chgrp

       should give you access to the complete manual.



chgrp (coreutils) 5.2.1		 August 2006			     CHGRP(1)

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