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coreutils: Changing file attributes

 
 13 Changing file attributes
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 A file is not merely its contents, a name, and a file type (⇒
 Special file types).  A file also has an owner (a user ID), a group (a
 group ID), permissions (what the owner can do with the file, what people
 in the group can do, and what everyone else can do), various timestamps,
 and other information.  Collectively, we call these a file’s
 “attributes”.
 
    These commands change file attributes.
 

Menu

 
· chown invocation            Change file owners and groups.
· chgrp invocation            Change file groups.
· chmod invocation            Change access permissions.
· touch invocation            Change file timestamps.
 

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