chgrp (change group) in Linux CLI - Interactive Code Practice

Practice - 5 Tasks

1fill in blank

easy

Complete the code to change the group of the file example.txt to staff.

Linux CLI

chgrp [1] example.txt

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Aadmin

Bstaff

Cusers

Droot

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a username instead of a group name.

Forgetting to specify the group name.

The chgrp command changes the group ownership of a file. Here, staff is the target group.

2fill in blank

medium

Complete the code to change the group of all files in the current directory to developers.

Linux CLI

chgrp [1] *

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Aadmin

Busers

Cstaff

Ddevelopers

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using a wrong group name.

Not using the wildcard * to select all files.

The asterisk * selects all files in the current directory. The group developers is assigned to all of them.

3fill in blank

hard

Fix the error in the command to recursively change the group of the directory project and all its contents to team.

Linux CLI

chgrp -[1] team project

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AR

Br

Ca

Df

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using lowercase -r which is not recognized by chgrp.

Forgetting the recursive option.

The option -R (uppercase) tells chgrp to apply changes recursively to all files and subdirectories.

4fill in blank

hard

Fill both blanks to change the group of file.txt to admins and show the command output.

Linux CLI

chgrp [1] file.txt && ls -l [2]

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Aadmins

Bfile.txt

C-l

Dadmins.txt

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using the wrong file name in the second command.

Confusing options with file names.

First, the group is changed to admins. Then, ls -l file.txt lists the file details showing the new group.

5fill in blank

hard

Fill all three blanks to recursively change the group of docs directory to editors, force no error messages, and list the directory contents.

Linux CLI

chgrp -[1] [2] editors docs && ls [3] docs

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AR

B-f

C-l

D-r

Attempts:

3 left

💡 Hint

Common Mistakes

Using lowercase -r instead of uppercase -R.

Omitting the force option -f.

Not using -l to list detailed file info.

Use -R for recursive, -f to suppress errors, and -l to list details of the docs directory.