.Dd February 9, 2015 .Dt CHGRP 1 .Os sbase .Sh NAME .Nm chgrp .Nd change the file group ownership .Sh SYNOPSIS .Nm .Op Fl R .Op Fl H .Op Fl L .Op Fl P .Ar groupname .Op Ar file... .Sh DESCRIPTION .Nm sets the group id of the files specified by .Ar file to the gid of the group named .Ar group. .El .Sh OPTIONS .Bl -tag -width Ds .It Fl R Change file group ownership recursively. .It Fl H Only dereference symbolic links that are passed as command line arguments when recursively traversing directories. .It Fl L Always dereference symbolic links while recursively traversing directories. .It Fl P Don't dereference symbolic links (default). .Ar file . .Sh SEE ALSO .Xr chmod 1 , .Xr chown 1 , .Xr chmod 2 , .Xr chown 2 , .Xr getgrnam 3 .El .Sh STANDARDS The .Nm utility is compliant with the .St -p1003.1-2008 specification except from the -h flag.