Name

chgrp - change group ownership of files

Synopsis

$ chgrp <gid> <path...>
$ chgrp <name> <path...>

Description

chgrp called as root or as file owner changes owning group of specified path to gid or name.

Options

• -h, --no-dereference: Don't follow symlinks

Examples

# Change group of README.md to 111
# chgrp 111 README.md

# Change group of README.md to root
# chgrp root README.md

See also

• chmod(1)
• chown(1)