From "man chown" chown [-fhR] owner[:group] pathname ...
put the owner in followed by a ":" then the group name. Al Nims Systems Admin/Programmer 3 UFIT University of Florida (352) 273-1298 -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of zos reader Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2016 10:01 AM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Chown query Hi, I created a new directory with 755 permission and the directory should have the group and owner as same as the previous one, as like owner should be TSMMEV and and group should be TSMHXC. Old one:- #file: /products/test/DB2/db10534/ *#owner: TSMMEV #group: TSMHXC user::rwx group::rwx other::r-x Newly created:- #file: /products/test/DB2/db105535/ *#owner: OPSME1 #group: OPSYS1 user::rwx group::r-x other::r-x I need to change the Owner as TSMMEV from OPSME1 and group as TSMHXC from OPSYS1. chown -r TSMMEV I know that chown command will work, but when i tried to find the location of owner TSMMEV & group TSMHXC, i not aware of the command. Can you please help me on this. Regards, Samat ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN