SETPGID(1)

💅 SETPGID(1) — User Commands ✨

okay bestie, gather round, because this one is short but it's giving main character energy. This is the manual page for setpgid, a lil user command, and I'm gonna walk you through it like we're texting at 2am. no cap. 🫶

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🌸 NAME 🌸

setpgid — run a program in a new process group 💖

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

setpgid [options] program [arguments]

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

setpgid runs a program in a new process group.

that's it. that's the whole thing. lowkey iconic how simple it is, honestly. 🎀

💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -f, --foreground — Make the new process group the foreground process group of the controlling terminal if there is a controlling terminal. (yes, that "if" is doing real work, bestie, don't skip it 🙈)
• -h, --help — Display help text and exit. 🫶
• -V, --version — Display version and exit. ⭐

👑 AUTHORS 👑

Daan De Meyer <daan.j.demeyer@gmail.com>

(we stan. thank you for your service 🫡💜)

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

setpgid(2)

(yes the number matters — that's the syscall version, iykyk 🧚)

💀 REPORTING BUGS 💀

For bug reports, use the issue tracker <https://github.com/util-linux/util-linux/issues>.

not me asking you to file a clean, reproducible bug report instead of just yelling into the void. fr fr, the tracker is right there, use it. 🙈✨

🎀 AVAILABILITY 🎀

The setpgid command is part of the util-linux package which can be downloaded from Linux Kernel Archive <https://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/>.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! this is util-linux 2.42.4, dated 2026-09-21, and it's the SETPGID(1) manual page — go forth and group your processes responsibly. slay. 💖✨🎀🦋🌸💅🫶🔥👑🌈⭐💀🙈🍓🧚💜