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diff --git a/man/1/chgrp b/man/1/chgrp new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e6e894cb --- /dev/null +++ b/man/1/chgrp @@ -0,0 +1,44 @@ +.TH CHGRP 1 +.SH NAME +chgrp \- change file's group or owner +.SH SYNOPSIS +.B chgrp +[ +.B -uo +] +.I id +.I file ... +.SH DESCRIPTION +.I Chgrp +changes the group ownership of each +.I file +to the given +.IR id , +if the file's server +permits it. +The +.B -u +and +.B -o +options are equivalent +and cause +.I chgrp +to change file ownership instead, +if the file's server permits it. +.PP +Normally, a file's group can be changed by the file's owner, if the +owner is a member of the new group, or by the leader of both +the file's current group and the new group, +but various underlying devices, file servers and host operating systems +might not permit the operation at all. +Group and ownership changes allowed by a given device are documented by +the device's manual page. +See +.IR sys-stat (2) +for the variations amongst host operating systems. +.SH SOURCE +.B /appl/cmd/chgrp.b +.SH SEE ALSO +.IR chmod (1), +.IR ls (1) +.IR sys-stat (2) |