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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.35.
+.TH CHGRP "1" "March 2007" "GNU coreutils 6.9" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+chgrp \- change group ownership
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B chgrp
+[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fIGROUP FILE\fR...
+.br
+.B chgrp
+[\fIOPTION\fR]... \fI--reference=RFILE FILE\fR...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+.\" Add any additional description here
+.PP
+Change the group of each FILE to GROUP.
+With \fB\-\-reference\fR, change the group of each FILE to that of RFILE.
+.TP
+\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-changes\fR
+like verbose but report only when a change is made
+.TP
+\fB\-\-dereference\fR
+affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is
+the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
+.TP
+\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-no\-dereference\fR
+affect each symbolic link instead of any referenced
+file (useful only on systems that can change the
+ownership of a symlink)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-no\-preserve\-root\fR
+do not treat `/' specially (the default)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-preserve\-root\fR
+fail to operate recursively on `/'
+.TP
+\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
+suppress most error messages
+.TP
+\fB\-\-reference\fR=\fIRFILE\fR
+use RFILE's group rather than specifying a
+GROUP value
+.TP
+\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
+operate on files and directories recursively
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
+output a diagnostic for every file processed
+.PP
+The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the \fB\-R\fR
+option is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the final
+one takes effect.
+.TP
+\fB\-H\fR
+if a command line argument is a symbolic link
+to a directory, traverse it
+.TP
+\fB\-L\fR
+traverse every symbolic link to a directory
+encountered
+.TP
+\fB\-P\fR
+do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-help\fR
+display this help and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-\-version\fR
+output version information and exit
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.TP
+chgrp staff /u
+Change the group of /u to "staff".
+.TP
+chgrp \fB\-hR\fR staff /u
+Change the group of /u and subfiles to "staff".
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Report bugs to <bug\-coreutils@gnu.org>.
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.br
+This is free software. You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
+the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.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.