Name
chown
Synopsis
chown uid, gid, files
Changes the owner and group of a list of files. The
first two arguments must be the numerical
uid and gid,
in that order. The function returns the number of files
successfully changed.
On most systems, you are not allowed to change the ownership of the file unless you’re the superuser, although you should be able to change the group to any of your secondary groups. On insecure systems, these restrictions may be relaxed, but this is not a portable assumption.
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