group: One of the three possibilities for who can have permissions for operations (read, write, execute) on a file (in Linux).

See:

• chgrp
• addgrp ?? (I made that up -- I know there is some command to add a user to a group (or create a group) -- maybe it's just the adduser command.

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• RandyKramer - 31 Jan 2002
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