chown

Purpose

Changes the owner of a directory or file.

chown (-R) [OWNER] [PATH]

Arguments

• (-R) — enables recursion mode
• OWNER — the new owner of the specified file or directory
• PATH — the path to the file or directory to change the permissions

Examples

Non recursion mode

chown volk /home/volk

Result:
Set the new owner of /home/volk to “volk”.

Recursion mode

chown -R volk /home/volk

Result:
Set the new owner of /home/volk to “volk”, and all files and directories inside this folder.