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diff --git a/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8 b/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
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+++ b/usr.sbin/chown/chown.8
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@
.Oc
.Op Fl f
.Op Fl h
+.Op Fl v
.Ar owner Ns Op Ar :group
.Ar file ...
.Nm chown
@@ -55,6 +56,7 @@
.Oc
.Op Fl f
.Op Fl h
+.Op Fl v
.Ar :group
.Ar
.Sh DESCRIPTION
@@ -85,6 +87,10 @@ the exit status to reflect such failures.
.It Fl h
If the file is a symbolic link, change the user ID and/or the group ID
of the link itself rather than the file that the link points to.
+.It Fl v
+Cause
+.Nm
+to be verbose, showing files as the owner is modified.
.El
.Pp
The
@@ -133,6 +139,10 @@ group names may contain the dot character.
.Pp
On previous versions of this system, symbolic links did not have
owners.
+.Pp
+The
+.Fl v
+option is non-standard and its use in scripts is not recommended.
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chgrp 1 ,
.Xr find 1 ,
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