Command to Change owner and group of file or directory

The Command used to change owner and group of file or directory  uses the following :

Change the owner name of the file :

           

chown    UserName   FileName

Change the owner name of the file :

           

chown username DirectoryName

Change the owner name and group name of the file :

           

chown   UserName:GroupName   FileName

Change the owner name and group name of the directory :

           

chown   UserName:GroupName   DirectoryName

Example :

If you want to change the group name as : dba and owner name as user1 for the directory name MyDirectory then the command :

           

chown   user1:dba   MyDirectoryName

To recursively change the owner of the files or folders of directory :

use -R ,

           

chown   -R   owner   File/Folder

Using –v along with –R will list the changes made ,

           

chown   -Rv   owner   Folder