Sunday, January 17, 2010

Changing ownership of files using chown command

chown command is used for changing ownership of files, for help run in terminal


chown --h

Usage: chown [OPTION]... [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE...

for example : if ownership of files under folder /home/xyzabc/Pictures (including subdirectories) has to be assigned to user "xyzabc" 

sudo chown -R xyz /home/xyzabc/Pictures

where -R means recursive - operate on files and directories recursively

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