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Example
The following example shows the usage of lchown() method.
#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys
# Open a file
path = "/var/www/html/foo.txt"
fd = os.open( path, os.O_RDWR|os.O_CREAT )
# Close opened file
os.close( fd )
# Now change the file ownership.
# Set a file owner ID
os.lchown( path, 500, -1)
# Set a file group ID
os.lchown( path, -1, 500)
print "Changed ownership successfully!!"
Let us compile and run the above program, this will produce the following result:
print "Changed ownership successfully!!"
os.link(src, dst)
Description
The method link() creates a hard link pointing to src named dst. This method is very useful to create a copy of
existing file.
Syntax
Following is the syntax for link() method:
os.link(src, dst)
Parameters
• src -- This is the source file path for which hard link would be created.
• dest -- This is the target file path where hard link would be created.
Return Value
This method does not return any value.
Example
The following example shows the usage of link() method.
#!/usr/bin/python
import os, sys
# Open a file
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