CHOWN(1) General Commands Manual CHOWN(1)

chownchange the file ownership

chown [-h] [-R [-H | -L | -P]] owner[:group] file ...

The chown utility sets the user ID and the group ID of each file to the owner user ID and the group group ID.

Dereference symbolic links on command line.
Dereference all symbolic links.
Preserve symbolic links.
Descend recursively through its directories arguments.

The default is as if the -P option had been specified.

The chown utility exits 0 on success, and >0 if an error occurs.

chgrp(1), chmod(1)

The chown utility is compliant with the specification.

December 29, 2019 EltaninOS