NAME

       chmod  - Change the mode of each FILE to MODE.  With --reference, change the mode of each FILE to that of
       RFILE.

SYNOPSIS

       chmod  [--help]  [-c|--changes]  [-f|--quiet]   [-v|--verbose]   [--no-preserve-root]   [--preserve-root]
       [-R|--recursive]  [--reference]  [-H  ]  [-L ] [-P ] [--dereference] [-h|--no-dereference] [-V|--version]
       [MODE] [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) 0.2.2

                                         chmod (uutils coreutils) 0.2.2                                 chmod(1)