, short for change owner, is a
shell
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Architecture and design
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Science Biology
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command for changing the owning user of
Unix
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-based
file system files including
special files such as
directories.
The ownership of a file may only be altered by a super-user (such as via
sudo). A regular user cannot ''give away'' their ownership of a file.
The version of
chown bundled in
GNU coreutils was written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
The command is available for
Windows
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via
UnxUtils. The command was ported to
IBM i.
See also
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References
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chown#
External links
*
chown manual pageby The Linux Information Project (LINFO)
{{Core Utilities commands
Operating system security
Standard Unix programs
Unix SUS2008 utilities
IBM i Qshell commands