chown

Permissions

Change file owner and group

Options & Flags

Available options for this command

-R

Change ownership recursively

-v

Verbose output

Examples

Common usage examples

Change file owner to user

chown user file.txt

Change owner and group

chown user:group file.txt

Change ownership recursively

chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www

Notes

Requires root or sudo privileges
Format: chown user:group file

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