• NAME
• VERSION
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• FUNCTIONS
  • chown([ \%opts, ] LIST) => bool
• SEE ALSO
• HOMEPAGE
• SOURCE
• BUGS
• AUTHOR
• COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

NAME

File::chown - chown which groks user-/group names and some other extra features

VERSION

This document describes version 0.02 of File::chown (from Perl distribution File-chown), released on 2015-09-10.

SYNOPSIS

 use File::chown; # exports chown() by default

 # chown by user-/group names
 chown "ujang", "ujang", @files;

 # numeric ID's still work
 chown -1, 500, "myfile.txt";

 # option: use a reference file's owner/group instead of specifying directly,
 # like the Unix chown command's --reference=FILE.
 chown({ref => "/etc/passwd"}, "mypasswd");

 # option: use lchown instead of chown, like Unix chown command's --no-derefence
 # (-h).
 chown({deref=>0}, "nobody", "nobody", "/home/user/www");

DESCRIPTION

File::chown provides chown() which overloads the core version with one that groks user-/group names, as well as some other extra features.

FUNCTIONS

chown([ \%opts, ] LIST) => bool

Changes the owner (and group) of a list of files. Like the core version of chown(), The first two elements of the list must be $user and $group which can be numeric ID's (or -1 to mean unchanged) or string which will be looked up using getpwnam and getgrnam. Function will die if lookup fails.

It accepts an optional first hashref argument containing options. Known options:

• ref => str

  Like --reference option in the chown Unix command, meaning to get $user and $group from a specified filename instead of from the first two elements of the argument list.

• deref => bool (default: 1)

  If set to 0 then, like the --no-dereference (-h) option of the chown Unix command, will use File::lchown instead of the core chown(). This is to set ownership of a symlink itself instead of the symlink target.

SEE ALSO

chown in perlfunc

The chown Unix command

HOMEPAGE

Please visit the project's homepage at https://metacpan.org/release/File-chown.

SOURCE

Source repository is at https://github.com/perlancar/perl-File-chown.

BUGS

Please report any bugs or feature requests on the bugtracker website https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Dist/Display.html?Name=File-chown

When submitting a bug or request, please include a test-file or a patch to an existing test-file that illustrates the bug or desired feature.

AUTHOR

perlancar <perlancar@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2015 by perlancar@cpan.org.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.