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Linux/Unix is a multiuser and multiplex operating system, and all files have owners. Use chown to change the owner of the specified file to the specified user or group, the user can be the user name or the user ID; group can be the group name or the group ID; file is a list of files to change permissions separated by spaces, and wildcards are supported.

Generally speaking, the chown instruction is only used by the system administrator (root). The general user does not have the permission to change other people's file owners, nor does they have the authority to change their own file owners to someone else. Only the system administrator (root) has such permissions.

Permission: root

Grammar

Chown [- cfhvR] [--help] [--version] user [: group] file...

Parameters:

User: the user ID of the new file owner

Group: the user group of the new file owner (group)

-c: displays information about the changed part

-f: ignore error messages

-h: fix symbolic links

-v: displays detailed processing information

-R: processes all files in the specified directory and its subdirectories

-- help: displays auxiliary instructions

-- version: display version

Example

Set the owner of the file file1.txt to runoob, and the user of the group runoobgroup:

Chown runoob:runoobgroup file1.txt

Set the owner of all files and subdirectories under the current directory to runoob, and the user of the group runoobgroup:

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