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diff --git a/help/en/bash/chown.html b/help/en/bash/chown.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b2dcc4 --- /dev/null +++ b/help/en/bash/chown.html @@ -0,0 +1,131 @@ +<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd"><html> +<head> +<link rel="STYLESHEET" href="../term_tools/main.css" type="text/css"> +<title>chown MAN Page</title> +<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> +</head><body><!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/head_bash.lbi" --><div id="nav-menu"> +<ul> +<li><a class="rl" href="../term_tools/index.html"><img src="../term_tools/images/ss64.gif" title="Home" alt="Home"></a></li> +<li><a class="rl" href="../term_tools/bash"><img src="../term_tools/images/bash-l.gif" title="bash" alt="bash"></a></li> +<li><!-- Search Google --> +<form action="http://www.google.com/search" method="get" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;"> +<div align="right"> +<input name="q" type="text" class="body" size="25"> +<input class="submit" type="submit" value="Search"> +<input type="hidden" name="q" value="site:ss64.com/bash/"> +</div> +</form></li> +<li><a class="rr" href="syntax.html"><img src="../term_tools/images/syntax-r.gif" title="Bash Syntax"></a></li> +</ul> +</div> <!-- #EndLibraryItem --><h1> chown</h1> +<p>Change owner, change the user and/or group ownership of each given File to a new Owner.<br> +Chown can also change the ownership of a file to match the user/group of an existing reference file.</p> +<pre>SYNTAX + chown [<em>Options</em>]... <em>NewOwner File</em>... + + chown [<em>Options</em>]... :Group <em>File</em>... + + chown [<em>Options</em>]... --reference=RFILE <em>File</em>... + + If used, NewOwner specifies the new owner and/or group as follows + (with no embedded white space): + + [OWNER] [ [:.] [GROUP] ] + + Some examples of how the owner/group can be specified: + + OWNER + If only an OWNER (a user name or numeric user id) is given, that + user is made the owner of each given file, and the files' group is + not changed. + + OWNER.GROUP + OWNER:GROUP + If the OWNER is followed by a colon or dot and a GROUP (a group + name or numeric group id), with no spaces between them, the group + ownership of the files is changed as well (to GROUP). + + OWNER. + OWNER: + If a colon or dot but no group name follows OWNER, that user is + made the owner of the files and the group of the files is changed + to OWNER's login group. + + .GROUP + :GROUP + If the colon or dot and following GROUP are given, but the owner + is omitted, only the group of the files is changed; in this case, + `chown' performs the same function as `<a href="chgrp.html">chgrp</a>'. + +OPTIONS: + +-c +--changes + Verbosely describe the action for each FILE whose ownership + actually changes. + +--dereference + Do not act on symbolic links themselves but rather on what they + point to. + +-f +--silent +--quiet + Do not print error messages about files whose ownership cannot be + changed. + +-h +--no-dereference + Act on symbolic links themselves instead of what they point to. + This is the default. This mode relies on the `lchown' system call. + On systems that do not provide the `lchown' system call, `chown' + fails when a file specified on the command line is a symbolic link. + By default, no diagnostic is issued for symbolic links encountered + during a recursive traversal, but see `--verbose'. + +--reference=<em>FILE</em> + Use the user and group of the reference <em>FILE</em> instead of an explicit + <em>NewOwner</em> value. + +-R +--recursive + Recursively change ownership of directories and their contents. + +-v +--verbose + Verbosely describe the action (or non-action) taken for every FILE. + If a symbolic link is encountered during a recursive traversal on + a system without the `lchown' system call, and `--no-dereference' + is in effect, then issue a diagnostic saying neither the symbolic + link nor its referent is being changed.</pre> +<p><i>“It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not” - Jonathan Swift </i></p> +<p><b>Related</b>:<br> + <br> + <a href="chgrp.html">chgrp</a> - Change group ownership<br> + <a href="chmod.html">chmod</a> - Change access permissions <br> +<a href="../term_tools/bash/syntax-permissions.html">bash syntax - Permissions</a><br> +Equivalent Windows command:<a href="../term_tools/nt/xcacls.html"> XCACLS</a> - Change file permissions </p> +<!-- #BeginLibraryItem "/Library/foot_bash.lbi" --><p align="left"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- +google_ad_client = "pub-6140977852749469"; +google_ad_width = 300; +google_ad_height = 250; +google_ad_format = "300x250_as"; +google_ad_type = "text_image"; +google_ad_channel ="1984328893"; +google_color_border = "CCCCCC"; +google_color_bg = "CCCCCC"; +google_color_link = "000000"; +google_color_text = "333333"; +google_color_url = "0000FF"; +//--></script> +<script type="text/javascript" + src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> +</script><br> +</p> +<div align="center"><hr size="1"> + <p id="top"><a href="#"><img src="../term_tools/images/top-4.gif" width="47" height="53" border="0" alt="Back to the Top" title="Back to the Top"></a></p> + <p class="tagline">© Copyright <a href="http://ss64.com/">SS64.com</a> 1999-2010<br> +Some rights reserved<br> +</p> +</div><!-- #EndLibraryItem --></body> +</html> |