Changing Ownership of file and folders in Linux

to change ownership of a file or folder use “chmod” command
Example:

chmod user:user folder

if you want to make it recursive jsut and -R to it

chmod -R user:user folder

this is also correcto for the filesExample:

chmod user:user filename.html

you may ask your self why the owership has to valu seprated by colon
the first is the ownername and the second is the groupname
owner:groupname

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