chown
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chown Template:IPAc-en, short for change owner, is a shell command for changing the owning user of Unix-based file system files
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The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user (such as via sudo). A regular user cannot give away their ownership of a file.[1]
The version of chown bundled in GNU coreutils was written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.[2]
The command is available for Windows via UnxUtils.[3] The command was ported to IBM i.[4]
See also
References
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External links
- – Shell and Utilities Reference, The Single UNIX Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group
- chown manual page
- The chown Command by The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
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