## Chown

### Description

Changes the owner of a file or all files inside specified directories. Right now it has effect only under Unix. The owner atribute is equivalent to the coresponding argument for the chown command.

FileSets can be specified using nested `<fileset>` elements.

### Parameters

Attribute | Description | Required
file | the file or directory of which the owner must be changed. | Yes or nested `<fileset>` elements.
owner | the new owner. | Yes
parallel | process all specified files using a single `chown` command. Defaults to true. | No
type | One of file, dir or both. If set to file, only the owner of plain files are going to be changed. If set to dir, only the directories are considered. | No, default is file

### Examples

> `<chown file="${dist}/start.sh" owner="coderjoe"/>`

makes the "start.sh" file belong to coderjoe on a UNIX system.

>         <chown owner="coderjoe">
>           <fileset dir="${dist}/bin" includes="**/*.sh"/>
>         </chown>

makes all ".sh" files below `${dist}/bin` belong to coderjoe on a UNIX system.

>     <chown owner="coderjoe">
>       <fileset dir="shared/sources1">
>         <exclude name="**/trial/**"/>
>       </fileset>
>       <fileset refid="other.shared.sources"/>
>     </chown>

makes all files below `shared/sources1` (except those below any directory named trial) belong to coderjoe on a UNIX system. In addition all files belonging to a FileSet with `id` `other.shared.sources` get the same owner.

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