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chgrp

Change group ownership of files and directories. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chgrp.

  • Change the owner group of a file/directory:

chgrp group path/to/file_or_directory

  • Recursively change the owner group of a directory and its contents:

chgrp -R group path/to/directory

  • Change the owner group of a symbolic link:

chgrp -h group path/to/symlink

  • Change the owner group of a file/directory to match a reference file:

chgrp --reference path/to/reference_file path/to/file_or_directory

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