NAME

       chown - Change file owner and group

SYNOPSIS

       chown    [--help]    [-c|--changes]    [--dereference]    [-h|--no-dereference]   [--from]
       [--preserve-root]   [--no-preserve-root]    [--quiet]    [-R|--recursive]    [--reference]
       [-f|--silent] [-H ] [-L ] [-P ] [-v|--verbose] [-V|--version]

DESCRIPTION

       Change file owner and group

OPTIONS

       --help Print help information.

       -c, --changes
              like verbose but report only when a change is made

       --dereference
              affect  the  referent  of each symbolic link (this is the default), rather than the
              symbolic link itself

       -h, --no-dereference
              affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file (useful only on  systems  that
              can change the ownership of a symlink)

       --from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP
              change  the  owner and/or group of each file only if its current owner and/or group
              match those specified here. Either may be omitted, in which case  a  match  is  not
              required for the omitted attribute

       --preserve-root
              fail to operate recursively on '/'

       --no-preserve-root
              do not treat '/' specially (the default)

       --quiet
              suppress most error messages

       -R, --recursive
              operate on files and directories recursively

       --reference=RFILE
              use RFILE's owner and group rather than specifying OWNER:GROUP values

       -f, --silent

       -H     if a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it

       -L     traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered

       -P     do not traverse any symbolic links (default)

       -v, --verbose
              output a diagnostic for every file processed

       -V, --version
              Print version

VERSION

       v0.0.20

                                           chown 0.0.20                                  chown(1)