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chown - Change file owner and group

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]

Change file owner and group

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like verbose but report only when a change is made
affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of a symlink)
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
fail to operate recursively on '/'
do not treat '/' specially (the default)
suppress most error messages
operate on files and directories recursively
use RFILE's owner and group rather than specifying OWNER:GROUP values
if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it
traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered
do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
output a diagnostic for every file processed
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v0.0.26

chown 0.0.26