Version 1 of chown

Updated 2002-05-21 13:08:02

TclX interface to the command to change the owner of one or more files.

Some operating systems and/or file systems won't support this operation.


     chown [-fileid] owner | {owner group}
          Set owner of each file in the list filelist to owner, which
          can be a user name or numeric user id.  If the first parame-
          ter is a list, then the owner is set to the first element of
          the list and the group is set to the second element.  Group
          can be a group name or numeric group id.  If group is {},
          then the file group will be set to the login group of the
          specified user.

          If the option -fileid is specified, filelist is a list of
          open file identifiers rather than a list of file names.
          This option is not available on all Unix systems.  Use the
          infox have_fchown command to determine if this functionality
          is available.

          The chown command is not available on Windows 95/NT.

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