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CHGRP(1P) POSIX Programmer's Manual CHGRP(1P)
This manual page is part of the POSIX Programmer's Manual. The Linux
implementation of this interface may differ (consult the
corresponding Linux manual page for details of Linux behavior), or
the interface may not be implemented on Linux.
chgrp — change the file group ownership
chgrp [−h] group file...
chgrp −R [−H|−L|−P] group file...
The chgrp utility shall set the group ID of the file named by each
file operand to the group ID specified by the group operand.
For each file operand, or, if the −R option is used, each file
encountered while walking the directory trees specified by the file
operands, the chgrp utility shall perform actions equivalent to the
chown() function defined in the System Interfaces volume of
POSIX.1‐2008, called with the following arguments:
* The file operand shall be used as the path argument.
* The user ID of the file shall be used as the owner argument.
* The specified group ID shall be used as the group argument.
Unless chgrp is invoked by a process with appropriate privileges, the
set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits of a regular file shall be cleared
upon successful completion; the set-user-ID and set-group-ID bits of
other file types may be cleared.
The chgrp utility shall conform to the Base Definitions volume of
POSIX.1‐2008, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines.
The following options shall be supported by the implementation:
−h For each file operand that names a file of type symbolic
link, chgrp shall attempt to set the group ID of the
symbolic link instead of the file referenced by the
symbolic link.
−H If the −R option is specified and a symbolic link
referencing a file of type directory is specified on the
command line, chgrp shall change the group of the directory
referenced by the symbolic link and all files in the file
hierarchy below it.
−L If the −R option is specified and a symbolic link
referencing a file of type directory is specified on the
command line or encountered during the traversal of a file
hierarchy, chgrp shall change the group of the directory
referenced by the symbolic link and all files in the file
hierarchy below it.
−P If the −R option is specified and a symbolic link is
specified on the command line or encountered during the
traversal of a file hierarchy, chgrp shall change the group
ID of the symbolic link. The chgrp utility shall not follow
the symbolic link to any other part of the file hierarchy.
−R Recursively change file group IDs. For each file operand
that names a directory, chgrp shall change the group of the
directory and all files in the file hierarchy below it.
Unless a −H, −L, or −P option is specified, it is
unspecified which of these options will be used as the
default.
Specifying more than one of the mutually-exclusive options −H, −L,
and −P shall not be considered an error. The last option specified
shall determine the behavior of the utility.
The following operands shall be supported:
group A group name from the group database or a numeric group ID.
Either specifies a group ID to be given to each file named
by one of the file operands. If a numeric group operand
exists in the group database as a group name, the group ID
number associated with that group name is used as the group
ID.
file A pathname of a file whose group ID is to be modified.
Not used.
None.
The following environment variables shall affect the execution of
chgrp:
LANG Provide a default value for the internationalization
variables that are unset or null. (See the Base Definitions
volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Section 8.2, Internationalization
Variables for the precedence of internationalization
variables used to determine the values of locale
categories.)
LC_ALL If set to a non-empty string value, override the values of
all the other internationalization variables.
LC_CTYPE Determine the locale for the interpretation of sequences of
bytes of text data as characters (for example, single-byte
as opposed to multi-byte characters in arguments).
LC_MESSAGES
Determine the locale that should be used to affect the
format and contents of diagnostic messages written to
standard error.
NLSPATH Determine the location of message catalogs for the
processing of LC_MESSAGES.
Default.
Not used.
The standard error shall be used only for diagnostic messages.
None.
None.
The following exit values shall be returned:
0 The utility executed successfully and all requested changes
were made.
>0 An error occurred.
Default.
The following sections are informative.
Only the owner of a file or the user with appropriate privileges may
change the owner or group of a file.
Some implementations restrict the use of chgrp to a user with
appropriate privileges when the group specified is not the effective
group ID or one of the supplementary group IDs of the calling
process.
None.
The System V and BSD versions use different exit status codes. Some
implementations used the exit status as a count of the number of
errors that occurred; this practice is unworkable since it can
overflow the range of valid exit status values. The standard
developers chose to mask these by specifying only 0 and >0 as exit
values.
The functionality of chgrp is described substantially through
references to chown(). In this way, there is no duplication of
effort required for describing the interactions of permissions,
multiple groups, and so on.
None.
chmod(1p), chown(1p)
The Base Definitions volume of POSIX.1‐2008, Chapter 8, Environment
Variables, Section 12.2, Utility Syntax Guidelines
The System Interfaces volume of POSIX.1‐2008, chown(3p)
Portions of this text are reprinted and reproduced in electronic form
from IEEE Std 1003.1, 2013 Edition, Standard for Information
Technology -- Portable Operating System Interface (POSIX), The Open
Group Base Specifications Issue 7, Copyright (C) 2013 by the
Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc and The Open
Group. (This is POSIX.1-2008 with the 2013 Technical Corrigendum 1
applied.) In the event of any discrepancy between this version and
the original IEEE and The Open Group Standard, the original IEEE and
The Open Group Standard is the referee document. The original
Standard can be obtained online at http://www.unix.org/online.html .
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