S6-CHOWN(1)

NAME
s6-chown - change the owner and/or group of a file

SYNOPSIS
s6-chown [-U] [-u uid] [-g gid] file

DESCRIPTION
s6-chown changes file' s owner to (numeric) uid and group to (numeric) gid.

If uid isn't provided, the owner remains the same; if gid isn't provided, the group remains the same.

OPTIONS

-U  Set uid to the value of the UID environment variable and gid to the value of the GID environment variable. This makes s6-chown easily usable with s6-envuidgid(1):

        s6-envuidgid account s6-chown -U file

    changes file's uid and gid to account's.

-u  Set uid to uid.

-g  Set gid to gid.

EXIT STATUS

111 Temporary error.

100 Permanent error, such as a misuse.

127 Unable to execute program - not found.

126 Unable to execute program - other reason.

SEE ALSO
s6-basename(1), s6-cat(1), s6-chmod(1), s6-clock(1), s6-cut(1), s6-dirname(1), s6-dumpenv(1), s6-echo(1), s6-env(1), s6-expr(1), s6-false(1), s6-format-filter(1), s6-grep(1), s6-head(1), s6-hiercopy(1), s6-linkname(1), s6-ln(1), s6-ls(1), s6-maximumtime(1), s6-mkdir(1), s6-mkfifo(1), s6-nice(1), s6-nuke(1), s6-pause(1), s6-printenv(1), s6-quote(1), s6-quote-filter(1), s6-rename(1), s6-rmrf(1), s6-seq(1), s6-sleep(1), s6-sort(1), s6-sync(1), s6-tai64ndiff(1), s6-tail(1), s6-touch(1), s6-true(1), s6-uniquename(1), s6-unquote(1), s6-unquote-filter(1), s6-update-symlinks(1), seekablepipe(1)

[1] https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/utilities/chown.html

This man page is ported from the authoritative documentation at: https://skarnet.org/software/s6-portable-utils/s6-chown.html

STANDARDS
s6-chown is not suitable as a chown [1] program conforming to susv4 / p1003.1-2008.

AUTHORS
Laurent Bercot Alexis <flexibeast@gmail.com> (man page port)