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I have one file with root ownership, 

-rw-r--r--    1 root    staff  92229 Feb  6 10:51 oneFile
-rw-rw----@   1 John  staff     5242880 Feb  7 00:14 anotherFile

How can I change oneFile ownership and read write permission to be the same as anotherFile?

Bruni
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Provided you mean in a bash terminal, this is the way to go:

sudo chmod --reference=anotherFile oneFile
sudo chown --reference=anotherFile oneFile

From man chmod

CHMOD(1)

NAME
       chmod - change file mode bits

SYNOPSIS
       chmod [OPTION]... MODE[,MODE]... FILE...
       chmod [OPTION]... OCTAL-MODE FILE...
       chmod [OPTION]... --reference=RFILE FILE...
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