Chown Command explained

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Posted on December 05, 2007

Chowm most common usage
chown user1 folder/file name — this will give user1 rights to the file or folder

chown user1:user1 folder/file name – this will give user1 and group user1 rights to the file or folder

chown user1 folder/file name -R — this will give user1 rights to the folder and everything in the folder