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This command is used to change the ownership of a file/folder or even multiple files/folders for a specified user/group. chown owner_name file_name

Example$ chown user1 script.sh

change owner name

Examplechown owner_name file name

to change the ownership

Examplechown master file1.txt

if you are a user and you want to change ownership to root then use sudo before syntax

Examplesudo chown root file1.txt

reports when a file change is made

Examplechown -c master filed1.txt

it is used to show the verbose informarion for every processed file

Examplechown -v master file1.txt

it suppresses most of the error messages.

Examplechown -f master file1.txt

change the owner and group

Examplechown master: group 1 greek 1

change the owner and group

Examplechown master: group 1 greek 1

change the owner from particular ownership only

Examplechown --from= master root greek1

change the owner from particular ownership only

Examplechown --from= master root greek1

change group from a particular group

Examplechown --from =group 1 root greek 1

copy ownership of one file to another file

Examplechown --reference=grrek1 greek2

change ownership of multiplw files

Examplechown master: group greek2 greek 3

it is used to show the verbose information for every file procesed

Examplechown -v master file1.txt

to change group oownership

Examplechown :group1 file1.txt

change the owner from a particular owner

Examplechown --from=master root greek 1

change group from a particular group

Examplechown --from=; froup1 root greek 1

copy ownership of one file to another file

Examplechown --refrence= greek1 greek2

changes owner of the file to root

Examplechown root file1.txt

changing the file1 to mygroup

Examplechown mygroup file1

it shows the currenr=t owner and group and also to which owner and group it is changing

Examplechown --from pavani:mygrouop root:friends file1

we can get the owner or group information

Examplechown --refrence=ref  file1

display details of perations it performed

Examplechown root:pavani link1 -v

to view the owner and the group of the file

Examplechown ls -l colors.txt

it prints the information only if the changes are made in the owner or the directory file

Examplechown -c mygroup: file1

a symbolic link of a file is created

Example$ lnn -s root linux

ownership of a symbolic link file using chown command.-h option is used to apply the changes.

Examplechown -h pilot linux

using the directory name we change the owner or group of a directory by using the chown command

Examplechown linux folder

hides the error message in the output when the file or directory is not found

Examplechown -f root colors.txt

changes the owner of the multiple files

Example$ chown root colors.txt numbers.txt yesh.txt

changes the group file using group id instead of group name

Example$id -g root
$ chown: 100 pavani

chown's Examples