Linux change file owner and owning Group Chown command note

Chown to change the main or owning group of a file

Change file owner: #chown Zek 123.txt (Zek is the name of the owner)

#ls-L 123.txt

-rw-rw-rw-1 Zek Root 12777 December 4 20:31 123.txt

Change file to group such as: #chown: User1 123.txt

# ls-l 123.txt

-rw-rw-rw-1 Zek user1 12777 December 4 20:31 123.txt

Change them together: #chown zek:user1 123.txt or

#chown Zek.user1 123.txt

# ls-l 123.txt

-rw-rw-rw-1 root root 12777 December 4 20:31 123.txt

-R Cascade Change: Change the current directory and all files in the current directory

Example: Chown-r zek.user1 111

Note: The command history shortcut keys are used:

#history View command History

#!ls from the command history from the bottom up to the nearest command that starts with LS and executes

such as #!ls

Ls-l 123.txt

-rw-rw-rw-1 root root 12777 December 4 20:31 123.txt

#!642 the command from the command history with ID bit 642 and executes it.

642 Ls-l 123.txt

643 Chown Root.root 123.txt

#!642

Ls-l 123.txt

-rw-rw-rw-1 root root 12777 December 4 20:31 123.txt

Create owning group: #groupadd groupname

Create User: #useradd Zek

Linux change file owner and owning Group Chown command note