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- CHOWN(1L) CHOWN(1L)
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- NAME
- chown - change the user and group ownership of files
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- SYNOPSIS
- chown [-LRcfv] [+recursive] [+show-changes] [+dereference]
- [+silent] [+quiet] [+verbose] [user][:.][group] file...
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- 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 inter-
- preted 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.
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- OPTIONS
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- -_✓c, +_✓s_✓h_✓o_✓w-_✓c_✓h_✓a_✓n_✓g_✓e_✓s
- Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actually
- changes.
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- -_✓f, +_✓s_✓i_✓l_✓e_✓n_✓t, +_✓q_✓u_✓i_✓e_✓t
- Do not print error messages about files whose ownership
- cannot be changed.
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- -_✓v, +_✓v_✓e_✓r_✓b_✓o_✓s_✓e
- Verbosely describe ownership changes.
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- -_✓L, +_✓d_✓e_✓r_✓e_✓f_✓e_✓r_✓e_✓n_✓c_✓e
- Dereference symbolic links (recursively change the own-
- ership of directories pointed to by symbolic links).
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- -_✓R, +_✓r_✓e_✓c_✓u_✓r_✓s_✓i_✓v_✓e
- Recursively change ownership of directories.
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