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CHGRP(1L)							     CHGRP(1L)

NAME
       chgrp - change the group ownership of files

SYNOPSIS
       chgrp  [-Rcfv]  [--recursive]  [--changes] [--silent] [--quiet] [--ver‐
       bose] [--help] [--version] group file...

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

   OPTIONS
       -c, --changes
	      Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actually changes.

       -f, --silent, --quiet
	      Do not print error messages about files whose  ownership	cannot
	      be changed.

       -v, --verbose
	      Verbosely describe ownership changes.

       -R, --recursive
	      Recursively change ownership of directories and their contents.

       --help Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.

       --version
	      Print  version information on standard output then exit success‐
	      fully.

FSF			      GNU File Utilities		     CHGRP(1L)

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