chown command means Change an owner of a file and/or the group the file is associated with.

Syntax

chown [OPTION]… [OWNER][:[GROUP]] FILE…
chown [OPTION]… –reference=RFILE FILE…

On the man page, the describes it

•  – change file owner and group.
• man  – More details information about chown .

chown command in Linux with Examples

$ chown huupv:huupv mydevops.txt

Conclusion

chown command is a simple command in Linux. It is the most popular in use terminal Linux change file owner and group. Thank you for reading the DevopsRoles page!