Help with Linux command line...?

In the terminal input:

chown brown:engr /data/file1

or change to the directory:

cd /data

chown brown:engr file1

Where chown is change owner user:group (brown is in the user space, engr is in the group space), /data/file1 is the location and file in question.

Then input :

ls -la

where ls is to list content, -l uses long list format -a is all including hidden files, thus -la long list all.

Summary, data/file1 is now owned by smith:acctg and needs to be changed to brown:engr

Note: This assumes that data is in your current path, if not, add the path to it.

From your ssh or terminal window:

ls -1alhr data/file1

You should see something like,

-rw-r--r-- 1 smith acctg 125 Aug 15 23:46 data/file1

Now change the ownership.

chown -v brown:engr data/file1

The -v switch tells you what happened.

You should see something like:

changed ownership of `data/file1 to brown:engr

To verify again:

ls -1alhr data/file1

You should see an output similar to the following:

-rw-r--r-- 1 brown engr 125 Aug 15 23:46 data/file1

Hope this helps.

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you go to the directory and then

chown brown file1

this will change the owner

then chgrp engr file1

this will change the group.