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CHOWN
!!!CHOWN
NAME
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!!NAME


chown - change file owner and group
!!SYNOPSIS


__chown__ [[''OPTION'']...
''OWNER''[['':''[[''GROUP'']] ''FILE''...__
chown__ [[''OPTION'']... '':GROUP FILE''...__
chown__ [[''OPTION'']... ''--reference=RFILE
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


Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or
GROUP.


__-c__, __--changes__


like verbose but report only when a change is
made


__--dereference__


affect the referent of each symbolic link, rather than the
symbolic link itself


__-h__, __--no-dereference__


affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
(available only on systems that can change the ownership of
a symlink)


__--from__=''CURRENT_OWNER'':CURRENT_GROUP


change the owner and/or group of each file only if its
current owner and/or group match those specified here.
Either may be omitted, in which case a match is not required
for the omitted attribute.


__-f__, __--silent__, __--quiet__


suppress most error messages


__--reference__=''RFILE''


use RFILE's owner and group rather than the specified
OWNER:GROUP values


__-R__, __--recursive__


operate on files and directories recursively


__-v__, __--verbose__


output a diagnostic for every file processed


__--help__


display this help and exit


__--version__


output version information and exit


Owner is unchanged if missing. Group is unchanged if
missing, but changed to login group if implied by a `:'.
OWNER and GROUP may be numeric as well as
symbolic.
!!AUTHOR


Written by David !MacKenzie.
!!REPORTING BUGS


Report bugs to
!!COPYRIGHT


Copyright 2001 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying
conditions. There is NO warranty; not even for
MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR
PURPOSE.
!!SEE ALSO


The full documentation for __chown__ is maintained as a
Texinfo manual. If the __info__ and __chown__ programs
are properly installed at your site, the
command


__info chown__


should give you access to the complete manual.
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