chown -- change ownership of files.
chown [-R [-H | -L | -P]] user[:group] file [files ...]
chown sets the ownership of files. The first argument after the options is either a user, or a user-group pair, separated by a colon. If the group is given, group membership of the file is changed as well.
chown accepts the options described below. The options -L, -H and -P are mutally exclusive, and only the last given option will be honoured. All of -L, -H and -P require the -R option to be set first.
The working of chown is not influenced by any environment variables.
chown can loop forever when symbolic links create cycles.
chown uses File::Find
to recurse.
$Log: chown.abigail.html,v $
Revision 1.1 2004/07/23 20:08:50 cwest
initial import
Revision 1.1 1999/02/28 19:59:17 abigail
Initial revision
AUTHOR
The Perl implementation of chown was written by Abigail, abigail@fnx.com.
COPYRIGHT and LICENSE
This program is copyright by Abigail 1999.
This program is free and open software. You may use, copy, modify, distribute and sell this program (and any modified variants) in any way you wish, provided you do not restrict others to do the same.