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1 .Dd October 8, 2015
2 .Dt CHOWN 1
3 .Os sbase
4 .Sh NAME
5 .Nm chown
6 .Nd change file ownership
7 .Sh SYNOPSIS
8 .Nm
9 .Op Fl h
10 .Oo
11 .Fl R
12 .Op Fl H | L | P
13 .Oc
14 .Ar owner Ns Op Pf : Op Ar group
15 .Op Ar file ...
16 .Nm
17 .Op Fl h
18 .Oo
19 .Fl R
20 .Op Fl H | L | P
21 .Oc
22 .Pf : Ar group
23 .Op Ar file ...
24 .Sh DESCRIPTION
25 .Nm
26 sets the user and/or group id of each
27 .Ar file
28 to the uid of
29 .Ar owner
30 and/or the gid of
31 .Ar group
32 respectively.
33 .Sh OPTIONS
34 .Bl -tag -width Ds
35 .It Fl h
36 Preserve
37 .Ar file
38 if it is a symbolic link.
39 .It Fl R
40 Change file ownerships recursively.
41 .It Fl H
42 Dereference
43 .Ar file
44 if it is a symbolic link.
45 .It Fl L
46 Dereference all symbolic links.
47 .It Fl P
48 Preserve symbolic links.
49 This is the default.
50 .El
51 .Sh SEE ALSO
52 .Xr chmod 1 ,
53 .Xr chown 2 ,
54 .Xr getgrnam 3 ,
55 .Xr getpwnam 3
56 .Sh STANDARDS
57 The
58 .Nm
59 utility is compliant with the
60 .St -p1003.1-2013
61 specification.
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