chown

chown [OPTIONS]

change file owner and group

Options

--help

Print help information

--version, -V

Print version information

--changes, -c

like verbose but report only when a change is made

--dereference

affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself

--no-dereference, -h

affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful 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

--preserve-root

fail to operate recursively on '/'

--no-preserve-root

do not treat '/' specially (the default)

--quiet

suppress most error messages

--recursive, -R

operate on files and directories recursively

--reference=<RFILE>

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

--silent, -f

-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)

--verbose, -v

output a diagnostic for every file processed