File system
chown
Change the owner and group of files.
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Verified: 2025-09-09
Syntax
$chown [BENUTZER][:GRUPPE] DATEI
Examples
$chown www-data:www-data /var/www -R
$chown john file.txt
Typical use cases
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Standard usage
chown --help
Note
Recursively with -R.
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