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.TH CHGRP 1 "November 1998" "GNU fileutils 4.0" "FSF"
.SH NAME
chgrp \- change group ownership
.SH SYNOPSIS
.B chgrp
[\fIOPTION\fR]...\fI GROUP FILE\fR...
.br
.B chgrp
[\fIOPTION\fR]...\fI --reference=RFILE FILE\fR...
.SH DESCRIPTION
.PP
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.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\-h\fR, \fB\-\-no\-dereference\fR
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (available only on systems with lchown system call)
.TP
\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
suppress most error messages
.TP
\fB\-\-reference\fR=\fIRFILE\fR
use RFILE's group instead of using a GROUP value
.TP
\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
change 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 "REPORTING BUGS"
Report bugs to <bug-fileutils@gnu.org>.
.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.