--help Print help information.
-c, --changes
like verbose but report only when a change is made
-f, --silent--quiet
suppress most error messages
-v, --verbose
output a diagnostic for every file processed
--preserve-root
fail to operate recursively on '/'
--no-preserve-root
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
--reference=RFILE
use RFILE's group rather than specifying GROUP values
--from=GROUP
change the group only if its current group matches GROUP
-R, --recursive
operate on files and directories recursively
-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
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