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takeown — Take ownership of a file or directory. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server

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Problem

How to use the takeown command: Take ownership of a file or directory. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/takeown>.

Solution

takeown — Take ownership of a file or directory. More information: <https://learn.microsoft.com/windows-server/administration/windows-commands/takeown>.

Take ownership of the specified file:
takeown /f {{path\to\file}}


Take ownership of the specified directory:
takeown /d {{path\to\directory}}


Take ownership of the specified directory and all subdirectories:
takeown /r /d {{path\to\directory}}


Change ownership to the Administrator group instead of the current user:
takeown /a /f {{path\to\file}}

Code Snippets

Take ownership of the specified file

takeown /f {{path\to\file}}

Take ownership of the specified directory

takeown /d {{path\to\directory}}

Take ownership of the specified directory and all subdirectories

takeown /r /d {{path\to\directory}}

Change ownership to the Administrator group instead of the current user

takeown /a /f {{path\to\file}}

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tldr-pages: windows/takeown

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