If you are not the owner of the file or directory, become superuser.
Only the current owner or superuser can use the chgrp command to change the group of a file or directory.
Change the group owner of a file by using the chgrp command.
$ chgrp group filename |
group |
Name of the new group of the file or directory. |
filename |
File or directory. |
Verify the group owner of the file is changed.
$ ls -l filename |
The following example sets the group ownership on myfile to the group scifi.
$ chgrp scifi myfile $ ls -l myfile -rwxrw-- 1 rimmer scifi 12985 Nov 12 16:28 myfile |