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+.\" DO NOT MODIFY THIS FILE!  It was generated by help2man 1.35.
+.TH CHOWN "1" "March 2007" "GNU coreutils 6.9" "User Commands"
+.SH NAME
+chown \- change file owner and group
+.SH SYNOPSIS
+.B chown
+[\fIOPTION\fR]... [\fIOWNER\fR][\fI:\fR[\fIGROUP\fR]] \fIFILE\fR...
+.br
+.B chown
+[\fIOPTION\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\-\-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 each symbolic link instead of any referenced
+file (useful only on systems that can change the
+ownership of a symlink)
+.TP
+\fB\-\-from\fR=\fICURRENT_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\-f\fR, \fB\-\-silent\fR, \fB\-\-quiet\fR
+suppress most error messages
+.TP
+\fB\-\-reference\fR=\fIRFILE\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
+.TP
+\fB\-v\fR, \fB\-\-verbose\fR
+output a diagnostic for every file processed
+.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 \fB\-hR\fR root /u
+Change the owner of /u and subfiles to "root".
+.SH AUTHOR
+Written by David MacKenzie and Jim Meyering.
+.SH "REPORTING BUGS"
+Report bugs to <bug\-coreutils@gnu.org>.
+.SH COPYRIGHT
+Copyright \(co 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+.br
+This is free software.  You may redistribute copies of it under the terms of
+the GNU General Public License <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>.
+There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.
+.SH "SEE ALSO"
+chown(2)
+.PP
+The full documentation for
+.B chown
+is maintained as a Texinfo manual.  If the
+.B info
+and
+.B chown
+programs are properly installed at your site, the command
+.IP
+.B info chown
+.PP
+should give you access to the complete manual.