chown

Changes owner and group of files.

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Verified: 2025-09-09

Syntax

$chown [USER][:GROUP] FILE

Examples

$chown www-data:www-data /var/www -R

$chown john file.txt

Typical use cases

Standard usage

chown --help

Note Recursive with -R.

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