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 In the above example, we first checked the owner/group of the reference-file ‘file’ and then checked the owner/group of the target-file ‘tmpfile’. Both were different.  Then we used the chown command with the ‘–reference’ option to apply the owner/group settings from the reference file to the target file. The command was successful and the owner/group settings of ‘tmpfile’ were made similar to the ‘file’
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+==== List all the changes made by the chown command ====
+    Use the verbose option -v, which will display whether the ownership of the file was changed
+    or retained as shown below.
+    # chown -v -R guest:friends linux
+    changed ownership of `linux/redhat/rh7' to guest:friends
+    changed ownership of `linux/redhat' retained to guest:friends
+    ownership of `linux/redhat_sym' retained as guest:friends
+    ownership of `linux/ubuntu_sym' retained as guest:friends
+    changed ownership of `linux/linuxKernel' to guest:friends
+    changed ownership of `linux/ubuntu/ub10' to guest:friends
+    ownership of `linux/ubuntu' retained as guest:friends
+    ownership of `linux' retained as guest:friends
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