tldr/pages/common/chown.md

24 lines
526 B
Markdown

# chown
> Change the owning user/group of the specified files
- change the user of a file
`chown {{user}} {{path/to/file}}`
- change the user and group of a file
`chown {{user}}:{{group}} {{path/to/file}}`
- recursively change the owner of an entire folder
`chown -R {{user}} {{path/to/folder}}`
- change the owner of a symbolic link
`chown -h {{user}} {{path/to/symlink}}`
- use the owner and group of a reference file and apply those values to another file
`chown --reference={{reference-file}} {{path/to/file}}`