Change ownership and permissions of file

Question

Is it possible to change owner/group of a file AND permissions with 1 command?
I tried:
chmod user1:groupOfUser1=770 file.txt
but it does not work.

Make a shell script that combines the `chmod` and `chown` commands? — DerfK, Dec 14 '12 at 12:53
My thoughts are that the answer might be in some the usage of [setfacl](http://linux.die.net/man/1/setfacl). Is it possible to update owner/group and default permissions with setfcacl? — Zoredache, Dec 15 '12 at 01:07

score 4 · Answer 1 · answered Dec 14 '12 at 13:33

Create a script

Similar to this you can modify as per your need

cat chmodown
#!/bin/bash

chmod $2 $1 $5
chown $3:$4 $1 $5

$1 is file name $2 is permission $3 user name $4 Group name $5 (-R) for recursive.

You can then place the same script to "/usr/bin/" too.

chmodown install.log 777 test root
ls -al install.log
-rwxrwxrwx 1 test root 18262 Jul 27 01:52 install.log

Napster_X · Answer 2 · 2012-12-14T13:30:20.427

I don't think that's really possible.

I expect that what you are looking for is to input file name just once. You can do something like this

# for a in file.txt; do chown user1:groupOfUser1 $a; chmod 770 $a; done

Over here you need to input the file name just once :)

At the same time, you can use shell script like this:

#!/bin/bash
chown $1:$2 $4
chmod $3 $4

Make this executable and put it in your PATH variable and use it something like this.

# ./x.sh user group permission file_name

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