From 754797282e2e9e78345492a6d23f461d86f9c129 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: =?UTF-8?q?Andr=C3=A9=20K=C3=B6nig?= <andre.koenig@posteo.de>
Date: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 12:45:43 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] chown: use the owner and group of a reference file and apply
 those values to another file

Example:

    chown --reference=foobar.txt *.txt
---
 pages/common/chown.md | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/pages/common/chown.md b/pages/common/chown.md
index dbab206103..4bbc69dd95 100644
--- a/pages/common/chown.md
+++ b/pages/common/chown.md
@@ -17,3 +17,7 @@
 - change the owner of a symbolic link
  
 `chown -h {{user}} {{path/to/symlink}}`
+
+- use the owner and group of a reference file and apply those values to another file
+
+`chown --reference={{reference-file}} {{path/to/file}}`