[cs631apue] Missing chown?

Jan Schaumann jschauma at stevens.edu
Mon Oct 14 15:48:07 EDT 2019


Andrew Chen <achen8 at stevens.edu> wrote:
 
> I noticed that for some reason, I don't have the `chown` command installed
> on my system.

Are you sure?

Check in /sbin.

chown(8) is an admin utility (hence documented in
section 8 of the manual pages); it is not in /bin or
/usr/bin, as those are the locations for utilitites
for all users.  /sbin (and /usr/sbin) may not be in
your default PATH as a regular user.

-Jan


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