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The chown command

The chown command makes it possible to change the ownership of a file or directory. Users and groups are fundamental in Linux, with chown you can change the owner of a file or directory. It's also possible to change ownership on folders recursively

Examples:

1. Change the owner of a file

chown user file.txt

2. Change the group of a file

chown :group file.txt

3. Change the user and group in one line

chown user:group file.txt

4. Change to ownership on a folder recursively

chown -R user:group folder

Syntax:

chown [-OPTION] [DIRECTORY_PATH]