Linux – Copy and chmod/chown at the same time

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I have a log file owned by root that I want to copy into a directory owned by another user for him to analyse it (it must be uncompressed first).

Currently I'd have to

# cp log.xz /home/user/Documents
# chown user:user /home/user/Documents/log.xz

Is there a way to issue both commands at the same time, perhaps with one or more cp options?

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The cp man page does not list any options that would allow you to do this just with the CP command. If you are wanting to just issue a command and "walk away", you can put the 2 commands on 1 line separated by a ; to automatically execute the commands in sequence.

cp log.xz /home/user/Documents ; chown user:user /home/user/Documents/log.xz

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