-f |
Prevent this command from printing error messages even when the operation fails to change the group. |
-i |
Prompt for confirmation before changing the group for a file or directory. |
-R |
Change the group of a directory and every file and directory under that directory to the specified group, and change the shadow file information on each affected file and directory. |
group |
Specify a group name from the group database, or a numeric group ID, to give each file named by a file operand. If a numeric group operand exists as a group name in the group database, this command uses the group ID number associated with that name as the group ID. |
file |
Specify the path name of the file whose group ID you want to modify. |
dir |
Specify the path name of the directory whose group ID you want to modify. |