Chgrp

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The correct title of this article is chgrp. The initial letter is shown capitalized due to technical restrictions.

The chgrp command is used by unprivileged users on Unix-like systems to change the group associated with a file. Unlike the chown command, chgrp allows regular users to change groups, but only to one of which they are a member.

1 Usage
2 Usage example
3 See also
4 External links

[edit] Usage

The general syntax of the chgrp command is:

chgrp group target1 [target2 ..]

The group parameter indicates the new group with which the targets should be associated.
The target1 parameter indicates the files or directories for which the change should be made.
The target2 parameter indicates optional additional files or directories for which the change should be made.

Footnote: The group parameter may either be a symbolic name or an identifier.

[edit] Usage example

$ls -l ttt
-rw-r--r--   1 gbeeker  staff           545 Nov 04 2004  ttt
$chgrp system ttt
$ls -l ttt
-rw-r--r--   1 gbeeker  system          545 Nov 04 2004  ttt

The above command changes the group associated with ttt to 'system', provided the executing user is a member of that group.

[edit] See also

[edit] External links

chgrp's manpage

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