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Windows: List files and their permissions (access) in command line

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Mar 15, 2026451484 views
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In linux, lists files permissions, like this: In Windows, commands and don't have the options to list permissions. How is it possible to list files and their permissions using command line only?

Error Output

-rw-r--r--  1 user user      924 2011-07-01 20:23 test.txt

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Fix for: Windows: List files and their permissions (access) in command line

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Use icacls: The older cacls tool is the only choice on Windows XP [although you can copy from Server 2003]. cacls does not know about some ACL modes, but displays most of them fine. In both outputs, means "object inherit" (files will inherit this ACE), is "container inherit" (containers – i.e. folders – will inherit this ACE), is "inherit only". Microsoft also used to provide an xcacls tool separately, but its functionality is now part of icacls.

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