chown

Question 1

chown

Answer 1

chown changes the user and/or group ownership of each given file.

Question 2

chown

• c
• f
• v
• R [-H,-L,-P]

Answer 2

• c, –changes
• f, –silent, –quiet
• v, –verbose
• R [-H,-L,-P], –recursive, HLP modify how a hierarchy is traversed.
• H, If a command line argument is a symbolic link to a directory, traverse it.
• L, Traverse every symbolic link to a directory encountered.
• P, Do not traverse any symbolic links (default).

Question 3

chown

–dereference

-h, –no-dereference

–from=CURRENT_OWNER:CURRENT_GROUP

–no-preserve-root

–preserve-root

–reference=RFILE

Answer 3

–from=CURRENT_OWNER: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 moitted attribute.