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1 perry 1 CHOWN
2 !!!CHOWN
3 NAME
4 SYNOPSIS
5 DESCRIPTION
6 OPTIONS
7 AUTHOR
8 REPORTING BUGS
9 COPYRIGHT
10 SEE ALSO
11 ----
12 !!NAME
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15 chown - change file owner and group
16 !!SYNOPSIS
17
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19 __chown__ [[''OPTION'']...
20 ''OWNER''[['':''[[''GROUP'']] ''FILE''...__
21 chown__ [[''OPTION'']... '':GROUP FILE''...__
22 chown__ [[''OPTION'']... ''--reference=RFILE
23 FILE''...
24 !!DESCRIPTION
25
26
27 This manual page documents the GNU version of __chown__.
28 __chown__ changes the user and/or group ownership of each
29 given file, according to its first non-option argument,
30 which is interpreted as follows. If only a user name (or
31 numeric user ID) is given, that user is made the owner of
32 each given file, and the files' group is not changed. If the
33 user name is followed by a colon or dot and a group name (or
34 numeric group ID), with no spaces between them, the group
35 ownership of the files is changed as well. If a colon or dot
36 but no group name follows the user name, that user is made
37 the owner of the files and the group of the files is changed
38 to that user's login group. If the colon or dot and group
39 are given, but the user name is omitted, only the group of
40 the files is changed; in this case, __chown__ performs
41 the same function as __chgrp__.
42 !!OPTIONS
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45 Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or
46 GROUP.
47
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49 __-c__, __--changes__
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52 like verbose but report only when a change is
53 made
54
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56 __--dereference__
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59 affect the referent of each symbolic link, rather than the
60 symbolic link itself
61
62
63 __-h__, __--no-dereference__
64
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66 affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
67 (available only on systems that can change the ownership of
68 a symlink)
69
70
71 __--from__=''CURRENT_OWNER'':CURRENT_GROUP
72
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74 change the owner and/or group of each file only if its
75 current owner and/or group match those specified here.
76 Either may be omitted, in which case a match is not required
77 for the omitted attribute.
78
79
80 __-f__, __--silent__, __--quiet__
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83 suppress most error messages
84
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86 __--reference__=''RFILE''
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89 use RFILE's owner and group rather than the specified
90 OWNER:GROUP values
91
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93 __-R__, __--recursive__
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96 operate on files and directories recursively
97
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99 __-v__, __--verbose__
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102 output a diagnostic for every file processed
103
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105 __--help__
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108 display this help and exit
109
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111 __--version__
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114 output version information and exit
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117 Owner is unchanged if missing. Group is unchanged if
118 missing, but changed to login group if implied by a `:'.
119 OWNER and GROUP may be numeric as well as
120 symbolic.
121 !!AUTHOR
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123
2 perry 124 Written by David !MacKenzie.
1 perry 125 !!REPORTING BUGS
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128 Report bugs to
129 !!COPYRIGHT
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131
132 Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
133 This is free software; see the source for copying
134 conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
135 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
136 PURPOSE.
137 !!SEE ALSO
138
139
140 The full documentation for __chown__ is maintained as a
141 Texinfo manual. If the __info__ and __chown__ programs
142 are properly installed at your site, the
143 command
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146 __info chown__
147
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149 should give you access to the complete manual.
150 ----
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