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2 .\" Modified Sat Oct 9 17:46:48 1993 by faith@cs.unc.edu
3 .TH NEWGRP 1 "October 1993" "util-linux" "User Commands"
5 newgrp \- log in to a new group
11 changes the group identification of its caller, analogously to
13 The same person remains logged in, and the current directory
14 is unchanged, but calculations of access permissions to files are performed
15 with respect to the new group ID.
17 If no group is specified, the GID is changed to the login GID.
29 Originally by Michael Haardt. Currently maintained by
30 Peter Orbaek (poe@daimi.aau.dk).
33 The newgrp command is part of the util-linux package and is available from
34 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/.