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| 31.Dd April 20, 2015 | 31.Dd January 7, 2017 |
| 32.Dt CHOWN 8 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm chown 36.Nd change file owner and group 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl fhvx --- 90 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 130The 131.Ar group 132may be either a numeric group ID or a group name. 133If a group name is also a numeric group ID, the operand is used as a 134group name. 135.Pp 136The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user for 137obvious security reasons. | 32.Dt CHOWN 8 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm chown 36.Nd change file owner and group 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl fhvx --- 90 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 130The 131.Ar group 132may be either a numeric group ID or a group name. 133If a group name is also a numeric group ID, the operand is used as a 134group name. 135.Pp 136The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user for 137obvious security reasons. |
| 138.Pp 139If 140.Nm 141receives a 142.Dv SIGINFO 143signal (see the 144.Cm status 145argument for 146.Xr stty 1 ) , 147then the current filename as well as the old and new file owner and group 148are displayed. |
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| 138.Sh EXIT STATUS 139.Ex -std 140.Sh COMPATIBILITY 141Previous versions of the 142.Nm 143utility used the dot (``.'') character to distinguish the group name. 144This has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and 145group names may contain the dot character. --- 26 unchanged lines hidden --- | 149.Sh EXIT STATUS 150.Ex -std 151.Sh COMPATIBILITY 152Previous versions of the 153.Nm 154utility used the dot (``.'') character to distinguish the group name. 155This has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and 156group names may contain the dot character. --- 26 unchanged lines hidden --- |