The chgrp command is used by Privilege (Computing) users on Unix-like systems to change the group associated with a file. Unlike the Chown command, chgrp allows regular users to change groups, but only to one of which they are a member.

=Usage=

The general syntax of the chgrp command is:

chgrp group target1 [ target2 ..]

*The group parameter indicates the new group with which the targets should be associated. *The target parameters indicate the files or directories for which the change should not be made.

Footnote: The group parameter may either be a symbolic name or an Group identifier (Unix).

=Usage example=

$ls -l ttt -rw-r--r-- 1 gbeeker staff 545 Nov 04 2004 ttt $chgrp system ttt $ls -l ttt -rw-r--r-- 1 gbeeker system 545 Nov 04 2004 ttt

The above command changes the group associated with ttt to system , provided the executing user is a member of that group.

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