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The chown command (abbreviation for change owner) is used on Unix-like systems to change the owner of a file.

sudo chown -R <owner>:<group> /usr/local/

In Unix-like operating systems, chmod is the command and system call which may change the access permissions to file system objects.

sudo chmod -R g+w /usr/local/
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