GCHOWN

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NAME

chown - change the user and group ownership of files  

SYNOPSIS

chown [-LRcfv] [+recursive] [+show-changes] [+dereference] [+silent] [+quiet] [+verbose] [user][:.][group] file...  

DESCRIPTION

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, +show-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.
-L, +dereference
Dereference symbolic links (recursively change the ownership of directories pointed to by symbolic links).
-R, +recursive
Recursively change ownership of directories.


 

Index

NAME
SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
OPTIONS

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