chgrp

Command Function

This command is used to change the file group.

Syntax

chgrp [group] [pathname]

Parameters

Table 1 Parameter description

Parameter	Description	Value Range
group	Specifies the target file group.	[0, 0xFFFFFFFF]
pathname	Specifies the file path.	An existing file

Usage

Specify group to change the file group.
For the FAT file system, this command cannot be used to change user group IDs.

Example

Run chgrp 100 testfile.

Output

Changing the group ID of the testfile file in the dev/ directory to 100

OHOS:/dev$ ll testfile
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 0 0 1970-01-01 00:00 testfile
OHOS:/dev$ chgrp 100 testfile                                           
OHOS:/dev$ ll testfile                                                   
-rw-r--r-- 0 0 100 0 1970-01-01 00:00 testfile
OHOS:/dev$