- On Unix-like operating systems, a command to change the owner of files and directories. The ownership of any file in the system may only be altered by a superuser. A user cannot give away ownership of a file, even when the user owns it. Similarly, only a member of a group can change a file’s group ID to that group. ← Wikipedia
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