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       chown - change file owner and group

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       This manual page documents the GNU version of chown.  chown changes the
       user and/or group ownership of each given file.  If only an owner (a
       user name or numeric user ID) is given, that user is made the owner of
       each given file, and the files' group is not changed.  If the owner is
       followed by a colon and a group name (or numeric group ID), with no
       spaces between them, the group ownership of the files is changed as
       well.  If a colon but no group name follows the user name, that user is
       made the owner of the files and the group of the files is changed to
       that user's login group.  If the colon and group are given, but the
       owner is omitted, only the group of the files is changed; in this case,
       chown performs the same function as chgrp.  If only a colon is given,
       or if the entire operand is empty, neither the owner nor the group is
       changed.

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              change the ownership 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

       --no-preserve-root
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              use RFILE's ownership rather than specifying values RFILE is
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