chown: tweaks for parity with chgrp.md

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# chown
> Change the owning user/group of the specified files.
> Change user and group ownership of files and folders.
- Change the user of a file:
- Change the owner user of a file/folder
`chown {{user}} {{path/to/file}}`
- Change the user and group of a file:
- Change the owner user and group of a file/folder:
`chown {{user}}:{{group}} {{path/to/file}}`
- Recursively change the owner of an entire folder:
- Recursively change the owner of a folder and its contents
`chown -R {{user}} {{path/to/folder}}`
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`chown -h {{user}} {{path/to/symlink}}`
- Use the owner and group of a reference file and apply those values to another file:
- Change the owner of a file/folder to match a reference file:
`chown --reference={{reference-file}} {{path/to/file}}`
`chown --reference={{path/to/reference_file}} {{path/to/file}}`