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Asked: 2026-05-16T02:32:55+00:00

I know this is technically a 3 part question, but it is all in

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I know this is technically a 3 part question, but it is all in the same vein. I need a way to generate a report, most likely text based, that will display all of the file permissions on all directories and files within a tree. The tree has a depth of X, I say X because it is possible that this tree will grow. Regardless I have a start for a *nix implementation, but it is definitely lacking.

*nix

ll */ */ */ * > perms.txt

This is of course pretty terrible based on the number of times I would need to repeat this, it does however generate the results that I desire. I imagine Solaris will look much the same, Windows I am not sure what to expect. Any help is greatly appreciated.

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  1. Editorial Team

    For Windows, there’s CACLS, but it doesn’t recurse automatically to list ACLs. Here’s a VBScript that will do that part for you: http://www.codeproject.com/KB/vbscript/VBScript_ACL_Crawl.aspx

    On Linux it’s probably simplest (and most portable) to use ls -lR as ire_and_curses says.

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