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<h2><a name="Chown">Chown</a></h2>
<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
atribute is equivalent to the coresponding argument for the chown
command.</p>

<p><a href="../CoreTypes/fileset.html">FileSet</a>s can be specified
using nested <code>&lt;fileset&gt;</code> elements.</p>

<h3>Parameters</h3>
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    <td valign="top"><b>Attribute</b></td>
    <td valign="top"><b>Description</b></td>
    <td align="center" valign="top"><b>Required</b></td>
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    <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&gt;</code> elements.</td>
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    <td valign="top">owner</td>
    <td valign="top">the new owner.</td>
    <td valign="top" align="center">Yes</td>
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    <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>
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    <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.</td>
    <td align="center" valign="top">No, default is <i>file</i></td>
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<h3>Examples</h3>
<blockquote>
  <p><code>&lt;chown file=&quot;${dist}/start.sh&quot; owner=&quot;coderjoe&quot;/&gt;</code></p>
</blockquote>
<p>makes the &quot;start.sh&quot; file belong to coderjoe on a
UNIX system.</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>
    &lt;chown owner=&quot;coderjoe&quot;&gt;
      &lt;fileset dir=&quot;${dist}/bin&quot; includes=&quot;**/*.sh&quot;/&gt;
    &lt;/chown&gt;
</pre>
</blockquote>
<p>makes all &quot;.sh&quot; files below <code>${dist}/bin</code>
belong to coderjoe on a UNIX system.</p>
<blockquote>
<pre>
&lt;chown owner=&quot;coderjoe&quot;&gt;
  &lt;fileset dir=&quot;shared/sources1&quot;&gt;
    &lt;exclude name=&quot;**/trial/**&quot;/&gt;
  &lt;/fileset&gt;
  &lt;fileset refid=&quot;other.shared.sources&quot;/&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>
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<p align="center">Copyright &copy; 2002 Apache Software
Foundation. All rights Reserved.</p>

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