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49 lines
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layout: page
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category-page: basic
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category-title: Basic commands
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author: Joy Albertini
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tags: directory file chown symbolic link
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title: chown
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previous-page: pages/cmd/basic/info.html
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next-page: pages/cmd/basic/mv.html
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---
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<p>The <code>chown</code>
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If you want to change the user ID of a specific file, you can use chown. <br>
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Device-name:Current-position username$ chown owner[:group] file <br>
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Example chown Joy:student alice.txt add Joy to the group student <br>
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Use chgrp [:group] file to create a group for a file <br>
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Use Sudo chown owner[:group], if you need root permission for add the user to the group </p>
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<pre>
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chown user [group] file1 file2 ...
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</pre>
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<ul>
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<li><b>-f</b> Don't show all error messages except usage messages.</li>
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<li><b>-h</b> Changes the symbolic link and not the file or directory referred
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by the symbolic link.
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</li>
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<li><b>-R</b> changing the ownership for each file in a folder, if it encounters
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a symbolic link it will cheange the owenership of that symbolic link,
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and the directoryfile referred in the symbolic link, but the directory is not
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further transversed.
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</li>
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<li><b>-RH</b> changing the ownership for each file in a folder, if encounter symbolic link
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it will change the owenership of that symbolic link,
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the directory/file referred in the symbolic link, and all the
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directory is further transversed.
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</li>
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<li><b>-RL</b> If the -R option is specified and a symbolic link referencing a file of type directory
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is specified on the command line or encountered during the traversal of a file hierarchy,
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the chown command shall change the user ID (and group ID, if specified) of the directory
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referenced by the symbolic link and all files in the file hierarchy below it.
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</li>
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<li><b>-RP</b> changing the ownership for each file in a folder, if encounter symbolic
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link it will cheange the owenership of that symbolic link, but will not chenage the
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the directory/file referred in the symbolic link, and the directory is not
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further transversed.
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</li>
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</ul>
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