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<h2><a name="Chown">Chown</a></h2>
<p><em>Since Ant 1.6.</em></p>
<h3>Description</h3>

<p>Changes the owner of a file or all files inside specified
directories. Right now it has effect only under Unix.  The owner
attribute is equivalent to the corresponding argument for the chown
command.</p>

<p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s, 
<a href="../CoreTypes/dirset.html">DirSet</a>s or <a
href="../CoreTypes/filelist.html">FileList</a>s can be specified using
nested <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code>, <code>&lt;dirset&gt;</code> and 
<code>&lt;filelist&gt;</code> elements.</p>

<p>Starting with Ant 1.7, this task supports arbitrary <a
href="../CoreTypes/resources.html#collection">Resource Collection</a>s
as nested elements.</p>

<p>By default this task will use a single invocation of the underlying
chown command.  If you are working on a large number of files this may
result in a command line that is too long for your operating system.
If you encounter such problems, you should set the maxparallel
attribute of this task to a non-zero value.  The number to use highly
depends on the length of your file names (the depth of your directory
tree) and your operating system, so you'll have to experiment a
little.  POSIX recommends command line length limits of at least 4096
characters, this may give you an approximation for the number you
could use as initial value for these experiments.</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
<table border="1" cellpadding="2" cellspacing="0">
  <tr>
    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">file</td>
    <td valign="top">the file or directory of which the owner must be
    changed.</td>
    <td valign="top" valign="middle">Yes or nested
    <code>&lt;fileset/list&gt;</code> elements.</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">owner</td>
    <td valign="top">the new owner.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">parallel</td>
    <td valign="top">process all specified files using a single
      <code>chown</code> command. Defaults to true.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">No</td>
  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">type</td>
    <td valign="top">One of <i>file</i>, <i>dir</i> or
      <i>both</i>. If set to <i>file</i>, only the owner of
      plain files are going to be changed. If set to <i>dir</i>, only
      the directories are considered.<br>
      <strong>Note:</strong> The type attribute does not apply to
      nested <i>dirset</i>s - <i>dirset</i>s always implicitly
      assume type to be <i>dir</i>.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>file</i></td>
  </tr>
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    <td valign="top">maxparallel</td>
    <td valign="top">Limit the amount of parallelism by passing at
      most this many sourcefiles at once.  Set it to &lt;= 0 for
      unlimited.  Defaults to unlimited.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>

  </tr>
  <tr>
    <td valign="top">verbose</td>
    <td valign="top">Whether to print a summary after execution or not.
      Defaults to <code>false</code>.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No</td>
  </tr>

</table>
<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote><pre>
&lt;chown file="${dist}/start.sh" owner="coderjoe"/&gt;
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>makes the "start.sh" file belong to coderjoe on a
UNIX system.</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>
    &lt;chown owner="coderjoe"&gt;
      &lt;fileset dir="${dist}/bin" includes="**/*.sh"/&gt;
    &lt;/chown&gt;
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>makes all ".sh" files below <code>${dist}/bin</code>
belong to coderjoe on a UNIX system.</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>
&lt;chown owner="coderjoe"&gt;
  &lt;fileset dir="shared/sources1"&gt;
    &lt;exclude name="**/trial/**"/&gt;
  &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;fileset refid="other.shared.sources"/&gt;
&lt;/chown&gt;
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>makes all files below <code>shared/sources1</code> (except those
below any directory named trial) belong to coderjoe on a UNIX 
system. In addition all files belonging to a FileSet
with <code>id</code> <code>other.shared.sources</code> get the same
owner.</p>

<blockquote>
<pre>
&lt;chown owner="webadmin" type="file"&gt;
  &lt;fileset dir="/web"&gt;
    &lt;include name="**/*.cgi"/&gt;
    &lt;include name="**/*.old"/&gt;
  &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;dirset dir="/web"&gt;
    &lt;include name="**/private_*"/&gt;
  &lt;/dirset&gt;
&lt;/chmod&gt;
</pre>
</blockquote>

<p>makes cgi scripts, files with a <code>.old</code> extension or
directories beginning with <code>private_</code> belong to the user named
webadmin. A directory ending in <code>.old</code> or a file beginning with 
<code>private_</code> would remain unaffected.</p>

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