How can I view the permissions a user has on a file from the command line?

John Savill

January 8, 2000

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A. A. A utility is supplied with the resource kit called perms.exe which can be used to view permissions on files/directories. The usage is

perms
e.g. perms savilltechsavillj d:filejohnfile.dat

You can add /s to also show details of sub files/directories. The permissions shown equate to

R

Read

W

Write

X

Execute

D

Delete

P

Change Permission

O

Take Ownership

A

All

None

No Access

*

User is the owner

#

A group the member is a member of owns the file

?

Permissions cannot be determined

To output to a file just add > filename.txt at the end, e.g.

perms > file.txt

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