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Take Control of Ownership and Permissions in Linux with the Chown Command

TLDR; The chown command in Linux changes the ownership of files/directories, setting who can access/modify them. The syntax is chown [OPTION]… OWNER[:[GROUP]] FILE…. The R option can recursively change ownership in a directory and v displays verbose output. Note that root privileges are needed and it should be used with… Read More »Take Control of Ownership and Permissions in Linux with the Chown Command