Using the command Cacls in BATCH

Is this the same as your other question?

https://www.experts-exchange.com/questions/21170838/Difficult-question-about-subdirectories.html

Double points?

Just a couple of questions.

"CACLS %variable%"

What is %variable%? Is this going to be the main directory?

Why are we using the /T in this command:

"CACLS /T %variable%"

The help for cacls states:

/T Changes ACLs of specified files in the current directory and all subdirectories.

i use cacls for showing permissions too, the only way i know of to 'trim' the output like you're wanting would be to pipe the output to a .txt file  and 'trim' that output with a vbscript or such that would erase the a folder perms list if it had the same perms as the one above it ( and which had a 'child' name of the other folder) I was working on making such when my boss told me that she wanted the complete list.  
The Upshot is.... CACLS won't show you the difference between inherited perms and new perms.

Based on your previous question and my understanding of what I think you want I created this batch file:

@echo off

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

echo Processing %cd%...

cacls . >output.dat

call :COMPRESS "%cd%" output.dat _main.dat

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir /s /b /ad 2^>NUL') do call :PROCESS "%%a"

for %%a in (_temp1, _temp2, _main) do if exist %%a.dat del %%a.dat >NUL

echo Results are in output.dat

goto :EOF

:PROCESS

echo Checking %~1...

cacls "%~1" >_temp1.dat

call :COMPRESS "%~1" _temp1.dat _temp2.dat

echo N|comp _main.dat _temp2.dat 2>NUL >NUL

if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 goto :EOF

type _temp1.dat >>output.dat

goto :EOF

:COMPRESS

call :GETLENGTH "%~1"

set /a len+=1

if exist "%~3" del "%~3" >NUL

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('type "%~2"') do call :WRITELINE "%%a" "%~3"

goto :EOF

:WRITELINE

set _t=%~1

set _t=!_t:~%len%!

if "%_t%"=="" goto :EOF

echo %_t%>>"%~2"

goto :EOF

:GETLENGTH

set _t=%~1

set /a len=0

:COUNT

if "!_t:~%len%!"=="" goto :EOF

set /a len+=1
goto :COUNT

Good Luck,
Steve

SteveGTR

No its not the same question because i didnt know it was possible to use the command CACLS /T for showing the results
I read it same as you that its a command to change the ACL but if you do CALCS /T "c:\program files" it will show the persmission
for the main dir and all underneath sub dirs.

2nd question the %variable% is indeed a changing "main" directory

Dan

SteveGTR

Impressive as allways, because I dont understand anything about this batch
I there a way to change this batch so that it takes the %variable%

Dan

yeah, if you type:
cd %variable%

At the START of the batch file, after the "setlocal ...." command.
And then run the batch file, it will process everything in that directory I believe. :)

[r.D]

Or, if you want to pass an argument to the program, use this:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

if [%1]==[] (
   echo Usage: FileName.bat directory
   exit /b
)
if exist "%1" (
   cd %1
) ELSE (
   echo Specified directory: %1 could not be found.
   exit /b
)

:// And then the rest of the batch file ....


OR, if you want a prompt, use this:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

echo.
set /p variable="Enter the directory to process: "

if "%variable%"=="" (
   echo You have not specified a directory.
   echo Will process the current directory by default.
   echo    Currect Directory: %cd%
   echo    ....
)

:// Then the rest of the batch file ....


HTH :)
[r.D]

Actually, that last block should be:

@echo off
setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

echo.
set /p variable="Enter the directory to process: "

if "%variable%"=="" (
   echo You have not specified a directory.
   echo Will process the current directory by default.
   echo    Currect Directory: %cd%
   echo    ....
   goto :loop0
)

if exist "%variable%" (
   cd %variable%
) ELSE (
   echo Specified directory: %variable% could not be found.
   exit /b
)

:loop0

:// Then the rest of the batch file ....



:)

I modified the code to accept a parameter. If no directory is passed then the current directory is assumes.

@echo off

setlocal enabledelayedexpansion

set RootDir=%~1

if "%RootDir%"=="" set RootDir=%cd%

echo Processing %RootDir%...

cacls . >output.dat

call :COMPRESS "%RootDir%" output.dat _main.dat

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir %RootDir% /s /b /ad 2^>NUL') do call :PROCESS "%%a"

for %%a in (_temp1, _temp2, _main) do if exist %%a.dat del %%a.dat >NUL

echo Results are in output.dat

goto :EOF

:PROCESS

echo Checking %~1...

cacls "%~1" >_temp1.dat

call :COMPRESS "%~1" _temp1.dat _temp2.dat

echo N|comp _main.dat _temp2.dat 2>NUL >NUL

if %ERRORLEVEL%==0 goto :EOF

type _temp1.dat >>output.dat

goto :EOF

:COMPRESS

call :GETLENGTH "%~1"

set /a len+=1

if exist "%~3" del "%~3" >NUL

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('type "%~2"') do call :WRITELINE "%%a" "%~3"

goto :EOF

:WRITELINE

set _t=%~1

set _t=!_t:~%len%!

if "%_t%"=="" goto :EOF

echo %_t%>>"%~2"

goto :EOF

:GETLENGTH

set _t=%~1

set /a len=0

:COUNT

if "!_t:~%len%!"=="" goto :EOF

set /a len+=1
goto :COUNT

SteveGTR,

I tested the program and it allmost works perfect if I do "test.bat c:\windows" <-- test.bat = your program
than it works perfect but if i do the same with c:\program files or if i just run the program in c:\program files
it gives the following result

C:\Program Files>test
Processing C:\Program Files...
Checking C:\Program Files\Opera75\Program...
Het systeem kan het opgegeven bestand niet vinden. =                    "dutch for system can not find file specified"
Checking C:\WINDOWS\PROGRAM...
Het systeem kan het opgegeven bestand niet vinden.
Results are in output.dat

Dan

If you want to pass a directory with spaces, my code requires you to enclose it in double quotes. This is like when you want to copy a file or whatever using DOS commands. So you would say:

test "c:\program files"

The code has a bug in it that you discovered. Change this line:

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir %RootDir% /s /b /ad 2^>NUL') do call :PROCESS "%%a"

to:

for /f "delims=" %%a in ('dir "%RootDir%" /s /b /ad 2^>NUL') do call :PROCESS "%%a"

SteveGTR,

I tested the program today and I still have 2 small problems

I had one directory and i dont know exacly anymore but it was something like
c:\program files\program\some!program
Your program take the ! out of the directory so it was not found

Also but i dont understand at all why is that it gave as the first line in the output.dat:
This program can only be used on a ntfs partition
The only reason i can think of is that at my work I have a D and C partition and D is formatted as FAT but I have to check programs on C thats also the reason I asked for the %variable%
So this program is started from an batch on D and I call your program as: call SteveGTR.CMD %variable%
Dan

Steve,

Points not enough to tell you how happy I am with your solution.
Many many Thx

Dan