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newgrp [group [command]] newgrp [-c command] [group]

Options

-c--commandcommand

Pass command to the user’s shell with the -c option.

-h--help

Display help text and exit.

-V--version

Display version and exit.

DESCRIPTION

newgrp changes the group identification of its caller, analogously to login(1). The same person remains logged in, and the current directory is unchanged, but calculations of access permissions to files are performed with respect to the new group ID.

If no group is specified, the GID is changed to the login GID.

An optional command can be specified, which is invoked after group change instead of the user’s shell.

FILES

/etc/group, /etc/passwd

AUTHORS

Originally by Michael Haardt. Currently maintained by Peter Orbaek poe@daimi.aau.dk.

REPORTING BUGS

For bug reports, use the issue tracker https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues.

AVAILABILITY

The newgrp command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.