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.
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