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| 33.\" $Id$ | 33.\" $Id: chown.8,v 1.4 1997/02/22 16:04:35 peter Exp $ |
| 34.\" 35.Dd March 31, 1994 36.Dt CHOWN 8 37.Os BSD 4 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm chown 40.Nd change file owner and group 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm chown 43.Oo 44.Fl R 45.Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P 46.Oc 47.Op Fl f | 34.\" 35.Dd March 31, 1994 36.Dt CHOWN 8 37.Os BSD 4 38.Sh NAME 39.Nm chown 40.Nd change file owner and group 41.Sh SYNOPSIS 42.Nm chown 43.Oo 44.Fl R 45.Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P 46.Oc 47.Op Fl f |
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| 48.Ar owner Op Ar :group 49.Ar file ... 50.Nm chown 51.Oo 52.Fl R 53.Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P 54.Oc 55.Op Fl f | 49.Ar owner Op Ar :group 50.Ar file ... 51.Nm chown 52.Oo 53.Fl R 54.Op Fl H | Fl L | Fl P 55.Oc 56.Op Fl f |
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| 56.Ar :group 57.Ar file ... 58.Sh DESCRIPTION 59.Nm Chown 60sets the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified files. 61.Pp 62The options are as follows: 63.Bl -tag -width Ds --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 75.Fl R 76option is specified, no symbolic links are followed. 77.It Fl R 78Change the user ID and/or the group ID for the file hierarchies rooted 79in the files instead of just the files themselves. 80.It Fl f 81Don't report any failure to change file owner or group, nor modify 82the exit status to reflect such failures. | 58.Ar :group 59.Ar file ... 60.Sh DESCRIPTION 61.Nm Chown 62sets the user ID and/or the group ID of the specified files. 63.Pp 64The options are as follows: 65.Bl -tag -width Ds --- 11 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 77.Fl R 78option is specified, no symbolic links are followed. 79.It Fl R 80Change the user ID and/or the group ID for the file hierarchies rooted 81in the files instead of just the files themselves. 82.It Fl f 83Don't report any failure to change file owner or group, nor modify 84the exit status to reflect such failures. |
| 85.It Fl h 86If the file is a symbolic link, change the user ID and/or the group ID 87of the link itself rather than the file that the link points to. |
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| 83.El 84.Pp | 88.El 89.Pp |
| 85Symbolic links don't have owners, so unless the 86.Fl H 87or 88.Fl L 89option is set, 90.Nm chown 91on a symbolic link always succeeds and has no effect. | |
| 92The 93.Fl H , 94.Fl L 95and 96.Fl P 97options are ignored unless the 98.Fl R 99option is specified. --- 28 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 128utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 129.Sh COMPATIBILITY 130Previous versions of the 131.Nm chown 132utility used the dot (``.'') character to distinguish the group name. 133This has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and 134group names may contain the dot character. 135.Pp | 90The 91.Fl H , 92.Fl L 93and 94.Fl P 95options are ignored unless the 96.Fl R 97option is specified. --- 28 unchanged lines hidden (view full) --- 126utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs. 127.Sh COMPATIBILITY 128Previous versions of the 129.Nm chown 130utility used the dot (``.'') character to distinguish the group name. 131This has been changed to be a colon (``:'') character so that user and 132group names may contain the dot character. 133.Pp |
| 136Previous versions of the 137.Nm chown 138utility changed the owner of symbolic links specified on the command 139line. 140In this system, symbolic links do not have owners. | 134On previous versions of this system, symbolic links did not have 135owners. |
| 141.Sh SEE ALSO 142.Xr chgrp 1 , 143.Xr find 1 , 144.Xr chown 2 , 145.Xr fts 3 , 146.Xr symlink 7 147.Sh STANDARDS 148The 149.Nm chown 150command is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compliant. 151.Sh HISTORY 152A 153.Nm 154command appeared in 155.At v1 . | 136.Sh SEE ALSO 137.Xr chgrp 1 , 138.Xr find 1 , 139.Xr chown 2 , 140.Xr fts 3 , 141.Xr symlink 7 142.Sh STANDARDS 143The 144.Nm chown 145command is expected to be POSIX 1003.2 compliant. 146.Sh HISTORY 147A 148.Nm 149command appeared in 150.At v1 . |