chown

Change the user and/or group ownership of files, directories, or symbolic links.

Runs as chown|macOS, Linux, Windows

Command form

ai-draft · 2 tasks · 7 fields

Set owner and/or group of files. Symlink-traversal flags -H, -L and -P are left out.

Opens the form; the finished command lands at your prompt, unrun

Run in Otty

otty gui chown

Change ownerExample values, fixed in this page — nothing here reaches a terminal

Basic

Owner[:group]*

string

Files*

any

TasksEach one presets the form for one job

Change owner

ownerfiles

Change owner recursively

ownerfilesrecursiveverbose

ParametersOnly these flags are editable in the form

Owner[:group]

user, user:group or :group.
string · positional 0

Files

path · positional 1 · repeatable

Recursive

boolean

-R

Verbose

boolean

-v

Numeric IDs

boolean

-n

Suppress errors

boolean

-f

Change symlink itself

boolean

-h

SourcesEvery flag above is checked against these

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completion

Before it fills your prompt, Otty checks the installed chown against its version. A form that does not match your version is not offered.