CHOWN(1L)CHOWN(1L)NAME
chown - change the user and group ownership of files
SYNOPSIS
chown [-Rcfv] [--recursive] [--changes] [--help] [--version] [--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, --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.
-R, --recursive
Recursively change ownership of directories and their contents.
--help Print a usage message on standard output and exit successfully.
--version
Print version information on standard output then exit successâ
fully.
FSF GNU File Utilities CHOWN(1L)
