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chown

Change file owner and group

Syntax

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

Common Options

-RRecursive change
-vVerbose output
-cReport only if changes made

Common Examples

chown user file.txt

Change file owner

chown user:group file.txt

Change owner and group

chown -R user:group directory/

Recursive change

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