Add user to permissions through terminal

This is killing me. Seems like it should be such a simple task in the terminal but I just can't figure it out.
What I would like to do is to give another user on my computer write permissions to a file that I own.
I have tried several different things to no avail. Anyone have ideas? I know how to change the owner of the file, change the group or change my permissions but I just can't figure out how to add another user and set their permissions.
Thanks for help!

I am not doing this to one file. I know how to do this from the UI but I am trying to write a script to loop through the files in a folder and allow other specific users to read and write the files.
Here is what I have tried
chmod -R 775 nameOfFile
## This only changes the permissions for me as the admin
chgrp -f group nameOfFile
## this only changes the group that has access
chown newOwner nameOfFile
## this works but just removes me from ownership instead of adding a user that has read capabilities
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