Change ownership of file during copy

Question

How to change the ownership of a file during copy itself. I mean in cp command how to add ownership

I cant rely on --preserve and copying the file and then changing the ownership of file due to some constraints. Thanks

Answer 1

As stated here: https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/124855/move-files-and-change-ownership-at-the-sametime

Use rsync(1):

rsync \
  --remove-source-files \
  --chown=wanteduser:wantedgroup \
    /home/oldfolder /home/newfolder