Manual: chown

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NAME
       chown - Change file owner and group

SYNOPSIS
       chown  [--help]	[-c|--changes]	[--from] [--preserve-root] [--no-preserve-root] [--quiet] [-R|--recursive] [--refer‐
       ence] [-f|--silent] [-v|--verbose] [-H ] [-L ] [-P ] [--dereference] [-h|--no-dereference] [-V|--version]

DESCRIPTION
       Change file owner and group

OPTIONS
       --help Print help information.

       -c, --changes
	      like verbose but report only when a change is made

       --from 
	      change the owner and/or group of each file only if its current owner and/or group match those specified  here.
	      Either may be omitted, in which case a match is not required for the omitted attribute

       --preserve-root
	      fail to operate recursively on '/'

       --no-preserve-root
	      do not treat '/' specially (the default)

       --quiet
	      suppress most error messages

       -R, --recursive
	      operate on files and directories recursively

       --reference 
	      use RFILE's owner and group rather than specifying OWNER:GROUP values

       -f, --silent

       -v, --verbose
	      output a diagnostic for every file processed

       -H     if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it

       -L     traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered

       -P     do not traverse any symbolic links (default)

       --dereference
	      affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the symbolic link itself

       -h, --no-dereference
	      affect  symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on systems that can change the ownership of
	      a symlink)

       -V, --version
	      Print version

VERSION
       v(uutils coreutils) 0.8.0

							 2026-04-16						    CHOWN(1)