NAME

       chown - Change file owner and group

SYNOPSIS

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

       --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

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

       -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)

       --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)

       -V, --version
              Print version

VERSION

       v(uutils coreutils) 0.2.2

                                         chown (uutils coreutils) 0.2.2                                 chown(1)