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CHOWN and CHMOD Examples



Change the owner of a file

  # ls -lart tmpfile    [ls is used to diplay the file/directory properties]
  -rw-r--r-- 1 himanshu family 0 2012-05-22 20:03 tmpfile
  
  # chown root tmpfile
  
  # ls -l tmpfile
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root family 0 2012-05-22 20:03 tmpfile


Change the group of a file

  Through the chown command, the group (that a file belongs to) can also be changed.
  # ls -l tmpfile
  -rw-r--r-- 1 himanshu family 0 2012-05-22 20:03 tmpfile
  
  # chown :friends tmpfile
  
  # ls -l tmpfile
  -rw-r--r-- 1 himanshu friends 0 2012-05-22 20:03 tmpfile


Change both owner and the group

  # ls -l tmpfile
  -rw-r--r-- 1 root family 0 2012-05-22 20:03 tmpfile
  
  # chown himanshu:friends tmpfile
  
  # ls -l tmpfile
  -rw-r--r-- 1 himanshu friends 0 2012-05-22 20:03 tmpfile


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