Chown Task

Chown

Description

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.

FileSets can be specified using nested <fileset> elements.

Parameters

Attribute	Description	Required
file	the file or directory of which the owner must be changed.	Yes or nested `<fileset>` elements.
owner	the new owner.	Yes
parallel	process all specified files using a single `chown` command. Defaults to true.	No
type	One of file, dir or both. If set to file, only the owner of plain files are going to be changed. If set to dir, only the directories are considered.	No, default is file

Examples

<chown file="${dist}/start.sh" owner="coderjoe"/>

makes the "start.sh" file belong to coderjoe on a UNIX system.

    <chown owner="coderjoe">
      <fileset dir="${dist}/bin" includes="**/*.sh"/>
    </chown>

makes all ".sh" files below ${dist}/bin belong to coderjoe on a UNIX system.

<chown owner="coderjoe">
  <fileset dir="shared/sources1">
    <exclude name="**/trial/**"/>
  </fileset>
  <fileset refid="other.shared.sources"/>
</chown>

makes all files below shared/sources1 (except those below any directory named trial) belong to coderjoe on a UNIX system. In addition all files belonging to a FileSet with id other.shared.sources get the same owner.