


CHOWN(1L)                                               CHOWN(1L)


NNAAMMEE
       chown - change the user and group ownership of files

SSYYNNOOPPSSIISS
       cchhoowwnn  [-Rcfv]  [--recursive]  [--show-changes] [--silent]
       [--quiet] [--verbose] [user][:.][group] file...

DDEESSCCRRIIPPTTIIOONN
       This manual page  documents  the  GNU  version  of  cchhoowwnn.
       cchhoowwnn  changes  the  user  and/or  group ownership of each
       given file, according to its  first  non-option  argument,
       which  is interpreted as follows.  If only 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 user name is followed by a colon or dot  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 or dot 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
       or dot and group are given, but the user name is  omitted,
       only  the  group  of  the  files is changed; in this case,
       cchhoowwnn performs the same function as cchhggrrpp.

   OOPPTTIIOONNSS
       _-_c_, _-_-_s_h_o_w_-_c_h_a_n_g_e_s
              Verbosely describe only files whose ownership actu-
              ally changes.

       _-_f_, _-_-_s_i_l_e_n_t_, _-_-_q_u_i_e_t
              Do  not print error messages about files whose own-
              ership cannot be changed.

       _-_v_, _-_-_v_e_r_b_o_s_e
              Verbosely describe ownership changes.

       _-_R_, _-_-_r_e_c_u_r_s_i_v_e
              Recursively change  ownership  of  directories  and
              their contents.

       The  long-named options can be introduced with `+' as well
       as `--', for compatibility with previous releases.   Even-
       tually  support  for  `+'  will  be removed, because it is
       incompatible with the POSIX.2 standard.













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