1.\" Copyright (c) 1989, 1990, 1993, 1994 2.\" The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved. 3.\" 4.\" This code is derived from software contributed to Berkeley by 5.\" the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, Inc. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software 16.\" must display the following acknowledgement: 17.\" This product includes software developed by the University of 18.\" California, Berkeley and its contributors. 19.\" 4. Neither the name of the University nor the names of its contributors 20.\" may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software 21.\" without specific prior written permission. 22.\" 23.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE REGENTS AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 24.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 25.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 26.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE REGENTS OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 27.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 28.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 29.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 30.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 31.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 32.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 33.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 34.\" 35.\" @(#)chflags.1 8.2 (Berkeley) 3/31/94 36.\" 37.Dd March 31, 1994 38.Dt CHFLAGS 1 39.Os 40.Sh NAME 41.Nm chflags 42.Nd change file flags 43.Sh SYNOPSIS 44.Nm chflags 45.Oo 46.Fl R 47.Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P 48.Oc 49.Ar flags 50.Ar file ... 51.Sh DESCRIPTION 52The 53.Nm chflags 54utility modifies the file flags of the listed files 55as specified by the 56.Ar flags 57operand. 58.Pp 59The options are as follows: 60.Bl -tag -width Ds 61.It Fl H 62If the 63.Fl R 64option is specified, symbolic links on the command line are followed. 65(Symbolic links encountered in the tree traversal are not followed.) 66.It Fl L 67If the 68.Fl R 69option is specified, all symbolic links are followed. 70.It Fl P 71If the 72.Fl R 73option is specified, no symbolic links are followed. 74.It Fl R 75Change the file flags for the file hierarchies rooted 76in the files instead of just the files themselves. 77.El 78.Pp 79Flags are a comma separated list of keywords. 80The following keywords are currently defined: 81.Bd -literal -offset indent compact 82.\"arch nothing yet. 83dump set the dump flag 84sappnd set the system append-only flag (super-user only) 85schg set the system immutable flag (super-user only) 86uappnd set the user append-only flag (owner or super-user only) 87uchg set the user immutable flag (owner or super-user only) 88.Ed 89.Pp 90Putting the letters 91.Dq no 92before an option causes the flag to be turned off. 93For example: 94.Bd -literal -offset indent compact 95nodump the file should never be dumped 96.Ed 97.Pp 98Symbolic links do not have flags, so unless the 99.Fl H 100or 101.Fl L 102option is set, 103.Nm chflags 104on a symbolic link always succeeds and has no effect. 105The 106.Fl H , 107.Fl L 108and 109.Fl P 110options are ignored unless the 111.Fl R 112option is specified. 113In addition, these options override each other and the 114command's actions are determined by the last one specified. 115.Pp 116The 117.Nm chflags 118utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 119.Sh SEE ALSO 120.Xr chflags 2 , 121.Xr stat 2 , 122.Xr fts 3 , 123.Xr symlink 7 124