Open System Services Shell and Utilities Reference Manual (G06.28+, H06.05+)

chgrp(1) OSS Shell and Utilities Reference Manual

Environment Variables

The following environment variables affect the execution of the chgrp command:

UTILSGE Speciﬁes that HP extensions to the root directory should be omitted when the ini-

tial directory is root and a recursive operation occurs in an OSS shell command.

Application programs that test this variable might also honor its settings.

The UTILSGE value can be any of the following:

NOE Omit the /E directory.

NOG Omit the /G directory.

NOG:NOE Omit both the /G and /E directories.

The effect of assigning a value to the UTILSGE environment variable is the

same as specifying the -W NOG or -W NOE ﬂag in the command.

EXAMPLES

1. To change the group ownership of the ﬁle or directory named proposals to staff,enter:

chgrp staff proposals

The group access permissions for proposals now apply to staff. See the chmod(1) refer-

ence page for details.

2. To recursively change the group ownership of all OSS ﬁles on the local node to the

SUPER group, enter:

chgrp -W NOG -W NOE -R SUPER /

NOTES

Because /G and /E both appear in your local root directory, you should be very careful when

using OSS shell commands on or from the root directory. OSS shell commands that perform

recursive actions make no distinction between Guardian and OSS ﬁles or between local and

remote ﬁles. You can use the -W NOE and -W NOG ﬂags or the UTILSGE environment vari-

able to exclude objects in the Guardian ﬁle system or objects accessible through the Expand pro-

duct.

RELATED INFORMATION

Commands: chmod(1), chown(1), ls(1).

Functions: chmod(2), chown(2).

STANDARDS CONFORMANCE

The -W NOE and -W NOG ﬂags and the UTILSGE environment variable are HP extensions to

the XPG4 Version 2 speciﬁcation.

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