chown
Changes ownership and/or group ownership for files or directories.
Synopsis
chgrp [-R] [-v] [-u <username>] [-g <group_name>] <filepath> [<filepath> ...]
Syntax legend
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Syntax diagrams and code samples use one or more of these styles to mark placeholders for variable values. Replace placeholders with a valid option or your own user-defined value. In CQL statements, angle brackets are required to enclose data types in a set, list, map, or tuple.
Separate the data types with a comma.
For example: In Search CQL statements, angle brackets are used to identify the entity and literal value to overwrite the XML element in the schema and |
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Square brackets surround optional command arguments. Do not type the square brackets. |
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Parentheses identify a group to choose from. Do not type the parentheses. |
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A pipe separates alternative elements. Type any one of the elements. Do not type the pipe. |
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Indicates that you can repeat the syntax element as often as required. |
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Single quotation marks must surround literal strings in CQL statements.
Use single quotation marks to preserve upper case.
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For Search CQL only: Single quotation marks surround an entire XML schema declaration, such as |
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Map collection.
Curly braces enclose maps ( |
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Ends a CQL statement. |
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Separate command line options from command arguments with two hyphens. This syntax is useful when arguments might be mistaken for command line options. |
Options
If an option has a short and long form, both forms are given, separated by a comma.
- filepath
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Explicit or relative filepath. Wildcard characters are supported. Explicit file system prefixes
dsefs:andfile:are supported...is the parent directory. - -g, --group group_name
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New owner group name.
- -R, --recursive
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Perform the operation on directories and their contents recursively.
- -u, --user username
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Set new owner username.
- -v, --verbose
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Enable verbose console output
Examples
Recursively change ownership to admin group for two files:
dsefs dsefs://127.0.0.1:5598/ > chown -R -g admin file:/home/myFile file:/data2/myFile2
Change ownership to John Doe:
dsefs dsefs://127.0.0.1:5598/ > chown -u jdoe dsefs:/home/myFile