chown - chown

NAME  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  Arguments:  OPTIONS 

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NAME

chown − chown

SYNOPSIS

chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...

DESCRIPTION

Change file owner and group

chown [OPTION]... −−reference=RFILE FILE...

Arguments:

<OWNER> <FILE>...

OPTIONS

−−help

Print help information.

−c, −−changes

like verbose but report only when a change is made

−−from <CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP>

change the owner and/or group of each file only if its current owner and/or group match those specified here. Either may be omitted, in which case a match is not required for the omitted attribute

−−preserve−root

fail to operate recursively on ’/’

−−no−preserve−root

do not treat ’/’ specially (the default)

−−quiet

suppress most error messages

−R, −−recursive

operate on files and directories recursively

−−reference <RFILE>

use RFILE’s owner and group rather than specifying OWNER:GROUP values

	−f, −−silent
	−v, −−verbose

output a diagnostic for every file processed

−H

if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it

−L

traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered

−P

do not traverse any symbolic links (default)

−−dereference

affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself

−h, −−no−dereference

affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)

−V, −−version

Print version

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