chown

all

Change user and group ownership of files and directories. See also: `chgrp`.

Options (2)

-R, --recursiveboolean

Recursively change the owner of a directory and its contents

Example: sudo chown {{[-R|--recursive]}} {{user}} {{path/to/directory}}

-h, --no-dereferenceboolean

Change the owner of a symbolic link

Example: sudo chown {{[-h|--no-dereference]}} {{user}} {{path/to/symlink}}

Change the owner user of a file/directory

sudo chown user path/to/file_or_directory

Change the owner user and group of a file/directory

sudo chown user:group path/to/file_or_directory

Change the owner user and group to both have the name `user`

sudo chown user: path/to/file_or_directory

Change the group of a file to a group that the current user belongs to

chown :group path/to/file_or_directory

Recursively change the owner of a directory and its contents

sudo chown [-R|--recursive] user path/to/directory

Change the owner of a symbolic link

sudo chown [-h|--no-dereference] user path/to/symlink

Change the owner of a file/directory to match a reference file

sudo chown --reference path/to/reference_file path/to/file_or_directory