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- CHOWN(1L) CHOWN(1L)
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- NNAAMMEE
- chown - change the user and group ownership of files
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- SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
- cchhoowwnn [-Rcfv] [--recursive] [--changes] [--help] [--ver-
- sion] [--silent] [--quiet] [--verbose] [user][:.][group]
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- 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.
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- OOPPTTIIOONNSS
- _-_c_, _-_-_c_h_a_n_g_e_s
- Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actu-
- ally 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 own-
- ership 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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- _-_-_h_e_l_p Print a usage message and exit with a non-zero sta-
- tus.
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- _-_-_v_e_r_s_i_o_n
- Print version information on standard error then
- exit.
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