sbase/chown.1
FRIGN e51a2e6d2f Use ISO-date-format in manpages
The one specified by mdoc is hard to read for non-native
speakers from countries which read the date day-first (like
Germany, Greece, North-Korea, Swamp,...).
This is also consistent with how we generally specify dates
at suckless.org.
2015-10-08 17:15:08 +02:00

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.Dd 2015-10-08
.Dt CHOWN 1
.Os sbase
.Sh NAME
.Nm chown
.Nd change file ownership
.Sh SYNOPSIS
.Nm
.Op Fl h
.Oo
.Fl R
.Op Fl H | L | P
.Oc
.Op Ar owner Op Ar :group
.Op Ar file ...
.Sh DESCRIPTION
.Nm
sets the user or group id of each
.Ar file
to the uid of
.Ar owner
or the gid of
.Ar group
respectively.
.Sh OPTIONS
.Bl -tag -width Ds
.It Fl h
Preserve
.Ar file
if it is a symbolic link.
.It Fl R
Change file ownerships recursively.
.It Fl H
Dereference
.Ar file
if it is a symbolic link.
.It Fl L
Dereference all symbolic links.
.It Fl P
Preserve symbolic links. This is the default.
.El
.Sh SEE ALSO
.Xr chmod 1 ,
.Xr chown 2 ,
.Xr getgrnam 3 ,
.Xr getpwnam 3
.Sh STANDARDS
The
.Nm
utility is compliant with the
.St -p1003.1-2013
specification.