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chown

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- chown
chown:ai:134b8 How to have all ownership

$ chown -R ${username}:staff /

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chown:ai:38384 User bob is in groups bg1 and bg2. User pat is in group pgg. drw------x 2 pat ted 60 Jan 1 1:00 foo --w--w-r-x 1 pat bg1 0 Jan 1 1:00 foo/bar

$ chown bob:bg2 foo/bar

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chown:ai:c13a1 How can i change the user and group of a folder recursively?

$ chown -R newuser:newgroup /path/to/folder

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chown:ai:e5c62 How to add user group to a folder?

$ chown -R :groupname /path/to/folder

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chown:tldr:0afb3 chown: Recursively change the owner of a directory and its contents.

$ chown -R ${user} ${path-to-directory}

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chown:tldr:1214d chown: Change the owner user of a file/directory.

$ chown ${user} ${filename_or_directory}

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chown:tldr:1e60f chown: Change the owner of a symbolic link.

$ chown -h ${user} ${path-to-symlink}

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chown:tldr:493cc chown: Change the owner of a file/directory to match a reference file.

$ chown --reference=${path-to-reference_file} ${filename_or_directory}

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chown:tldr:56be8 chown: Change the owner user and group of a file/directory.

$ chown ${user}:${group} ${filename_or_directory}

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