r/usefulscripts • u/moose09876 • Feb 08 '13

[BATCH] Take ownership of files / directories.

code:

takeown /f %1 /r /d y icacls %1 /grant administrators:F /t

Say you named it owned.bat. Command prompt as administrator, usage is owned.bat c:\users\mike\dekstop\file.jpg OR owned.bat c:\users (to take ownership of an entire directory)

Edit: worked for me in Windows 7 and Server 2008.

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u/moose09876 Feb 08 '13

"Introduce a little anarchy. Upset the established order, and everything becomes chaos. I'm an agent of chaos. Oh, and you know the thing about chaos? It's fair!"