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Problem

How to use the chgrp command: Change group ownership of files and directories. See also: chown. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/chgrp-invocation.html>.

Solution

chgrp — Change group ownership of files and directories. See also: chown. More information: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/manual/html_node/chgrp-invocation.html>.

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|--recursive]}} {{group}} {{path/to/directory}}

Change the owner group of a symbolic link:

chgrp {{[-h|--no-dereference]}} {{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}}

Code Snippets

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|--recursive]}} {{group}} {{path/to/directory}}

Change the owner group of a symbolic link

chgrp {{[-h|--no-dereference]}} {{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}}

Context

tldr-pages: common/chgrp

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