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<h2><a name="Chgrp">Chgrp</a></h2>
<p><em>Since Ant 1.6.</em></p>
<h3>Description</h3>
<p>Changes the group of a file or all files inside specified
directories. Right now it has effect only under Unix. The group
atribute is equivalent to the coresponding argument for the chgrp
command.</p>
<p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s or <a
href="../CoreTypes/filelist.html">FileList</a>s can be specified using
nested <code><fileset></code> and <code><filelist></code>
elements.</p>
<h3>Parameters</h3>
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<td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
<td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
<td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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<td valign="top">file</td>
<td valign="top">the file or directory of which the group must be
changed.</td>
<td valign="top" valign="middle">Yes or nested
<code><fileset/list></code> elements.</td>
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<td valign="top">group</td>
<td valign="top">the new group.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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<td valign="top">parallel</td>
<td valign="top">process all specified files using a single
<code>chgrp</code> command. Defaults to true.</td>
<td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
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<td valign="top">type</td>
<td valign="top">One of <i>file</i>, <i>dir</i> or
<i>both</i>. If set to <i>file</i>, only the group of
plain files are going to be changed. If set to <i>dir</i>, only
the directories are considered.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>file</i></td>
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<td valign="top">maxparallel</td>
<td valign="top">Limit the amount of parallelism by passing at
most this many sourcefiles at once. Set it to <= 0 for
unlimited. Defaults to unlimited.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<td valign="top">verbose</td>
<td valign="top">Whether to print a summary after execution or not.
Defaults to <code>false</code>.</td>
<td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote>
<p><code><chgrp file="${dist}/start.sh" group="coders"/></code></p>
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<p>makes the "start.sh" file belong to the coders group on a
UNIX system.</p>
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<chgrp group="coders">
<fileset dir="${dist}/bin" includes="**/*.sh"/>
</chgrp>
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<p>makes all ".sh" files below <code>${dist}/bin</code>
belong to the coders group on a UNIX system.</p>
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<chgrp group="coders">
<fileset dir="shared/sources1">
<exclude name="**/trial/**"/>
</fileset>
<fileset refid="other.shared.sources"/>
</chgrp>
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</blockquote>
<p>makes all files below <code>shared/sources1</code> (except those
below any directory named trial) belong to the coders group on a UNIX
system. In addition all files belonging to a FileSet
with <code>id</code> <code>other.shared.sources</code> get the same
group.</p>
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