How to change file ownership in SSH?

Maxoq

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Dec 30, 2016

#1

I have a few files and seeing them having root as owner. I want to change its ownership to a specific user via SSH commands. I logged in as root on my terminal but now what can I do next to change file ownership?

VirtuBox

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Dec 30, 2016

#2

Code:

chown theuser:thegroup yourfile

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