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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE! It was generated by help2man 1.48.5.
+.TH CHOWN "1" "September 2022" "GNU coreutils 9.1" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+chown \- change file owner and group
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B chown
+[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... [\fI\,OWNER\/\fR][\fI\,:\/\fR[\fI\,GROUP\/\fR]] \fI\,FILE\/\fR...
+.br
+.B chown
+[\fI\,OPTION\/\fR]... \fI\,--reference=RFILE FILE\/\fR...
+.SH DESCRIPTION
+This manual page
+documents the GNU version of
+.BR chown .
+.B chown
+changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file. If
+only an owner (a user name or numeric user ID) is given, that user is made the
+owner of each given file, and the files' group is not changed. If the
+owner is followed by a colon and a group name (or numeric group ID),
+with no spaces between them, the group ownership of the files is
+changed as well. If a colon but no group name follows the user name,
+that user is made the owner of the files and the group of the files is
+changed to that user's login group. If the colon and group are given,
+but the owner is omitted, only the group of the files is changed;
+in this case,
+.B chown
+performs the same function as
+.BR chgrp .
+If only a colon is given, or if the entire operand is empty, neither the
+owner nor the group is changed.
+.SH OPTIONS
+.PP
+Change the owner and/or group of each FILE to OWNER and/or GROUP.
+With \fB\-\-reference\fR, change the owner and group of each FILE to those of RFILE.
+.TP
+\fB\-c\fR, \fB\-\-changes\fR
+like verbose but report only when a change is made
+.TP
+\fB\-f\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
+suppress most error messages
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
+output a diagnostic for every file processed
+.TP
+\fB\-\-dereference\fR
+affect the referent of each symbolic link (this is
+the default), rather than the symbolic link itself
+.TP
+\fB\-h\fR, \fB\-\-no\-dereference\fR
+affect symbolic links instead of any referenced file
+(useful only on systems that can change the
+ownership of a symlink)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-from\fR=\fI\,CURRENT_OWNER\/\fR:CURRENT_GROUP
+change the owner and/or group of each file only if
+its current owner and/or group match those specified
+here. Either may be omitted, in which case a match
+is not required for the omitted attribute
+.TP
+\fB\-\-no\-preserve\-root\fR
+do not treat '/' specially (the default)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-preserve\-root\fR
+fail to operate recursively on '/'
+.TP
+\fB\-\-reference\fR=\fI\,RFILE\/\fR
+use RFILE's owner and group rather than
+specifying OWNER:GROUP values
+.TP
+\fB\-R\fR, \fB\-\-recursive\fR
+operate on files and directories recursively
+.PP
+The following options modify how a hierarchy is traversed when the \fB\-R\fR
+option is also specified. If more than one is specified, only the final
+one takes effect.
+.TP
+\fB\-H\fR
+if a command line argument is a symbolic link
+to a directory, traverse it
+.TP
+\fB\-L\fR
+traverse every symbolic link to a directory
+encountered
+.TP
+\fB\-P\fR
+do not traverse any symbolic links (default)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-help\fR
+display this help and exit
+.TP
+\fB\-\-version\fR
+output version information and exit
+.PP
+Owner is unchanged if missing. Group is unchanged if missing, but changed
+to login group if implied by a ':' following a symbolic OWNER.
+OWNER and GROUP may be numeric as well as symbolic.
+.SH EXAMPLES
+.TP
+chown root /u
+Change the owner of /u to "root".
+.TP
+chown root:staff /u
+Likewise, but also change its group to "staff".
+.TP
+chown \-hR root /u
+Change the owner of /u and subfiles to "root".
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+GNU coreutils online help: <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/>
+.br
+Report any translation bugs to <https://translationproject.org/team/>
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2022 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <https://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+.br
+This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+\fBchown\fP(2)
+.PP
+.br
+Full documentation <https://www.gnu.org/software/coreutils/chown>
+.br
+or available locally via: info \(aq(coreutils) chown invocation\(aq