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- CHOWN(1L) MISC. REFERENCE MANUAL PAGES CHOWN(1L)
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- NAME
- chown - change the user and group ownership of files
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- SYNOPSIS
- chown [-Rcfv] [--recursive] [--changes] [--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
- -_c, --_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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- -_R, --_r_e_c_u_r_s_i_v_e
- Recursively change ownership of directories and their
- contents.
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- The long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well as
- `--', for compatibility with previous releases. Eventually
- support for `+' will be removed, because it is incompatible
- with the POSIX.2 standard.
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