NAME
chown - Change file owner and group
SYNOPSIS
chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...
chown [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
DESCRIPTION
Change file owner and group
OPTIONS
- --help
-
Print help information.
- -c, --changes
-
like verbose but report only when a change is made
- --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
- --preserve-root
-
fail to operate recursively on '/'
- --no-preserve-root
-
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
- --quiet
-
suppress most error messages
- -R, --recursive
-
operate on files and directories recursively
- --reference <RFILE>
-
use RFILE's owner and group rather than specifying OWNER:GROUP values
- -f, --silent
- -v, --verbose
-
output a diagnostic for every file processed
- -H
-
if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it
- -L
-
traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
- -P
-
do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
- --dereference
-
affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
- -h, --no-dereference
-
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)
- -V, --version
-
Print version
VERSION
v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0