{"id":73,"date":"2007-02-13T16:40:52","date_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/testblog.sapien.com\/index.php\/2007\/02\/13\/set-read-only-in-powershell\/"},"modified":"2007-02-13T16:40:52","modified_gmt":"2007-02-14T00:40:52","slug":"set-read-only-in-powershell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/2007\/02\/13\/set-read-only-in-powershell\/","title":{"rendered":"Set Read-Only in PowerShell"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fast PowerShell tip.  Need to mark a file as Read-Only? Use Get-ChildItem to get the file and then invoke the Set_IsReadOnly method.  This method needs a Boolean value (True or False) to indicate whether a file is ReadOnly.  <\/p>\n

(Get-ChildItem e:\\files\\protected.txt).Set_IsReadOnly($True)<\/font><\/p>\n

That’s all there is to it.  If you want to check if the file is readonly:<\/p>\n

(Get-ChildItem e:\\files\\protected.txt).IsReadOnly<\/font><\/p>\n

Will display True or False.<\/p>\n

You could also use the set_Attributes method, but be sure to include all the current attributes if you are trying to add ReadOnly. Otherwise set_Attributes will erase the old attributes and use whatever you assign.<\/p>\n

Technorati tags: Powershell<\/a>, scripting<\/a>, FileInfo<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Here’s a fast PowerShell tip.  Need to mark a file as Read-Only? Use Get-ChildItem to get the file and then invoke the Set_IsReadOnly method.  This method needs a Boolean value (True or False) to indicate whether a file is ReadOnly.  (Get-ChildItem e:\\files\\protected.txt).Set_IsReadOnly($True) That’s all there is to it.  If you want to check if the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-73","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-powershell"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.sapien.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}