NAME
chmod - Change the mode of each FILE to MODE. With --reference, change the mode of each FILE to that of RFILE.
SYNOPSIS
chmod [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE...
chmod [OPTION]... OCTAL-MODE FILE...
chmod [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Change the mode of each FILE to MODE. With --reference, change the mode of each FILE to that of RFILE.
OPTIONS
- --help
-
Print help information.
- -c, --changes
-
like verbose but report only when a change is made
- -f, --quiet
-
suppress most error messages
- -v, --verbose
-
output a diagnostic for every file processed
- --no-preserve-root
-
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
- --preserve-root
-
fail to operate recursively on '/'
- -R, --recursive
-
change files and directories recursively
- --reference
-
use RFILE's mode instead of MODE values
- -H
-
if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it
- -L
-
traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
- -P
-
do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
- --dereference
-
affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
- -h, --no-dereference
-
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)
- -V, --version
-
Print version
- [MODE]
- [FILE]
EXTRA
Each MODE is of the form [ugoa]*([-+=]([rwxXst]*|[ugo]))+|[-+=]?[0-7]+.
VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0