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     chown(LIST)

     chown LIST

             Changes the owner (and group) of a  list  of  files.
             The  first  two  elements  of  the  list must be the
             NUMERICAL uid and gid, in that order.   Returns  the
             number of files successfully changed.

                  $cnt = chown $uid, $gid, 'foo', 'bar';
                  chown $uid, $gid, @filenames;

             Here's an example that looks up non-numeric uids  in
             the passwd file:

                  print "User: ";
                  $user = <STDIN>;
                  chop($user);
                  print "Files: "
                  $pattern = <STDIN>;
                  chop($pattern);
                  open(pass, '/etc/passwd')
                       || die "Can't open passwd: $!\n";
                  while (<pass>) {
                       ($login,$pass,$uid,$gid) = split(/:/);
                       $uid{$login} = $uid;
                       $gid{$login} = $gid;
                  }
                  @ary = <${pattern}>;     # get filenames
                  if ($uid{$user} eq '') {
                       die "$user not in passwd file";
                  }
                  else {
                       chown $uid{$user}, $gid{$user}, @ary;
                  }