chown—changes owner of file

chown [ –fhR ] owner filename ...

chown changes the owner of the files to owner. The owner may be either a decimal user ID or a login name found in /etc/passwd file. Only the owner of a file (or the superuser) may change the owner of that file.

Example A.9. 
1   chown john filex
2   chown -R ellie ellie

EXPLANATION

  1. Changes the user ID of filex to john.

  2. Recursively changes the ownership to ellie for all files in ellie directory.

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