chown

Change user and group ownership of files and directories. More information: https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chown.

• Change the owner user of a file/directory:

chown user path/to/file_or_directory

• Change the owner user and group of a file/directory:

chown user:group path/to/file_or_directory

• Change the owner user and group to both have the name user:

chown user: path/to/file_or_directory

• Recursively change the owner of a directory and its contents:

chown -R user path/to/directory

• Change the owner of a symbolic link:

chown -h user path/to/symlink

• Change the owner of a file/directory to match a reference file:

chown --reference path/to/reference_file path/to/file_or_directory