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The chown command

The chown command makes it possible to change the ownership of a file or directory. Users and groups are fundamental in Linux, with chown you can change the owner of a file or directory. It's also possible to change ownership on folders recursively

Examples:

  1. Change the owner of a file
chown user file.txt
  1. Change the group of a file
chown :group file.txt
  1. Change the user and group in one line
chown user:group file.txt
  1. Change to ownership on a folder recursively
chown -R user:group folder

Syntax:

chown [-OPTION] [DIRECTORY_PATH]