chown - Change file owner

chown user file : Change owner of file

chown -R user dir: Recursively change owner of directory and the files it contains

chown -f user file: Silent. Suppress errors

chown --from=user.group file: Changes ownership of foo if current owner and/or group matches the given values

chown -R -c user dir: Change recursively ownership in bar only reporting when a change is made

chown user.group file: Change owner and group of file

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