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- NAME
-
- chown
- - change the user and group ownership of files
- SYNOPSIS
-
- chown
- [-Rcfv] [-recursive] [-changes] [-help]
[-version] [-silent] [-quiet] [-verbose] [user][:.][group]
file...
- DESCRIPTION
-
This documentation is no longer being maintained and may be inaccurate
or incomplete. The Texinfo documentation is now the authoritative
source. This manual page documents the GNU version of chown. chown
changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file, according
to its first non-option argument, which is interpreted as follows.
If only a user name (or numeric user ID) is given, that user is made
the owner of each given file, and the files' group is not changed.
If the user name is followed by a colon or dot and a group name (or
numeric group ID), with no spaces between them, the group ownership
of the files is changed as well. If a colon or dot but no group name
follows the user name, that user is made the owner of the files and
the group of the files is changed to that user's login group. If the
colon or dot and group are given, but the user name is omitted, only
the group of the files is changed; in this case, chown performs the
same function as chgrp.
- OPTIONS
-
- -c,
- -changes Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actually
changes.
- -f,
- -silent, -quiet Do not print error messages about files whose
ownership cannot be changed.
- -v,
- -verbose Verbosely describe ownership changes.
- -R,
- -recursive Recursively change ownership of directories and
their contents.
- -help
- Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
- -version
- Print version information on standard output then exit
successfully.
- EXAMPLES
-
$ ls -l
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 19:22 firstfile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 19:22 fourfile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 19:22 lastfile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 19:22 onefile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 19:22 thatfile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 29 Mar 26 19:23 thisfile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 19:22 thosefiles
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 19:22 threefile
-rw-rw-rw- 1 root root 0 Mar 26 19:22 twofile
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