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CHOWN(1L) CHOWN(1L)
NNAAMMEE
chown - change the user and group ownership of files
SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
cchhoowwnn [-Rcfv] [--recursive] [--changes] [--help] [--ver-
sion] [--silent] [--quiet] [--verbose] [user][:.][group]
file...
DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
This manual page documents the GNU version of cchhoowwnn.
cchhoowwnn 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,
cchhoowwnn performs the same function as cchhggrrpp.
OOPPTTIIOONNSS
_-_c_, _-_-_c_h_a_n_g_e_s
Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actu-
ally changes.
_-_f_, _-_-_s_i_l_e_n_t_, _-_-_q_u_i_e_t
Do not print error messages about files whose own-
ership cannot be changed.
_-_v_, _-_-_v_e_r_b_o_s_e
Verbosely describe ownership changes.
_-_R_, _-_-_r_e_c_u_r_s_i_v_e
Recursively change ownership of directories and
their contents.
_-_-_h_e_l_p Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero sta-
tus.
_-_-_v_e_r_s_i_o_n
Print version information on standard error then
exit.
FSF GNU File Utilities 1