NAME

chown - Change file owner and group

SYNOPSIS

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

DESCRIPTION

Change file owner and group

OPTIONS

--help

Print help information.

-c, --changes

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

-h, --no-dereference

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

-R, --recursive

operate on files and directories recursively

--reference=RFILE

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

-f, --silent

-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)

-v, --verbose

output a diagnostic for every file processed

-V, --version

Print version

VERSION

v0.0.27