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Braiam
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Isn't If chown can change groups, why was chgrp redundantcreated?

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Isn't chgrp redundant?

So there's chown which lets you change the owner and group of files and/or directories. But there's also chgrp which only changes the group. Why was chgrp created? Isn't it redundant?