How to remove a file attribute in PowerShell
Or, in this case, how to make a file not readonly in powershell. It took me a while to get this working and this is my best effort. In fact, this particular example recurses a whole folder and makes all files not readonly
$readonly = [System.IO.FileAttributes]::ReadOnly
get-childitem . -recurse | foreach { if ($_.Attributes -band $readonly -eq $readonly) { $_.Attributes -= $readonly.value__ } }
I did try to set the IsReadOnly property but Powershell throws a wobbly at that. If anybody knows a neater way of doing this I'd love to know.
Post By
Josh Twist
04:37
27 Jun 2008
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Posted by
Adrian Bateman
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27 Jun 2008
07:14
Why Powershell? I mean, I like Powershell and all, but why wouldn't you just use attrib?
Posted by
Josh
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28 Jun 2008
10:41
Why not use attrib?
If you don't know about it :)
That's much neater:
get-childitem <folder> -recurse | attrib -R
or
attrib -R /S
to do it for the whole current folder
Posted by
Adrian Bateman
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30 Jun 2008
14:14
Ah, that'd do it. :o)
Two weeks ago I could have given you my DOS 3.3 manuals to gen up on this stuff. Unfortunately I no longer own them. Oh well!
Posted by
Sam
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20 Mar 2009
12:09
Clear-ItemProperty C:\Temp\webproduction\elcabop.vsmdi -Name attributes -force
Posted by
Sam
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20 Mar 2009
12:11
Clear-ItemProperty C:\Temp\webproduction\elcabop.vsmdi -Name attributes -force