uu-chown1
Change file owner and group
Usage
chown [OPTION] ...
[OWNER]
[:
[GROUP]]
FILE ...
chown [OPTION] ...
--reference=RFILE
FILE ...
Overview
Change file owner and group
Options
-
--help -
Print help information.
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-c, --changes -
like verbose but report only when a change is made
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--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
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--preserve-root -
fail to operate recursively on '/'
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--no-preserve-root -
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
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--quiet -
suppress most error messages
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-R, --recursive -
operate on files and directories recursively
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--reference <RFILE> -
use RFILE's owner and group rather than specifying OWNER:GROUP values
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-f, --silent
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-v, --verbose -
output a diagnostic for every file processed
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-H -
if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it
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-L -
traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
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-P -
do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
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--dereference -
affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
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-h, --no-dereference -
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)
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-V, --version -
Print version
Version
v(uutils coreutils) 0.12.0