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chown

CautionChange owner

chown user:group <file>

Changes the owning user/group of a file.

Examples

  • chown -R www-data:www-data /var/wwwRecursively set web owner

Syntax

chown [-R] <user>:<group> <path>

Before you run it

-R affects everything beneath.

Used when you see

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