PowerShell: Check if a file is read only or not

This small powershell script checks if a given file is read-only or not.

$status = Get-ChildItem c:\temp\test.txt

If ($status.isreadonly)

{

Write-host -b yellow -f red “The file, $status.fullname is a read-only file”

}

Else

{

Write-host -b yellow -f red “The file, $status.fullname is a read-only file”

}

If you want to make a file as readonly, use the below code

$status = Get-ChildItem c:\temp\test.txt

$status.set_isreadyonly($true)

If ($status.isreadonly)

{

Write-host -b yellow -f red “The file, $status.fullname is a read-only file”

}

Else

{

Write-host -b yellow -f red “The file, $status.fullname is a read-only file”

}

If you want to remove the read-only a ttribute just change the parameter of set_isreadonly method to $false.

Happy Learning,

Sitaram Pamarthi