rust-chown1

Change file owner and group

Usage

chown [--help] [{-c | --changes}] [--from] [--preserve-root] [--no-preserve-root] [--quiet] [{-R | --recursive}] [--reference] [{-f | --silent}] [{-v | --verbose}] [-H] [-L] [-P] [--dereference] [{-h | --no-dereference}] [{-V | --version}]

Overview

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

v0.0.30

Releases

2 releases since Debian 12 (Bookworm); the text changed 1 time.

-V since Debian 13 (Trixie).