How Change owner from root to user for filename in Ubuntu/Linux

chown -R <username>.<username> <filename>

Example :

My PC username is shimpu and filename is test.txt having root as owner. I want to change the owner from root to shimpu.

• Go the the folder location from console
• Type chown -R shimpu.shimpu test.txt

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