CHMOD(1)                    General Commands Manual                   CHMOD(1)

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) 0.8.0

                                  2026-04-07                          CHMOD(1)