To Get File permission in VB

[cdls]

Hi,
I need to get permissions associated with a file in VB.
I can use Cacls command in Command prompt and re-direct the output to a file.
For eg:
cacls c:\test.doc > c:\permissions.out

A file called permissions.out gets created and the permission information for test.doc gets written into this file.

But the same statement does not work when I use
Shell("cacls c:\test.doc > c:\permissions.out&quot in my VB code. permissions.out file does not get created.
I tried the same in run command( start->run).Here also I gave
cacls c:\test.doc > c:\permissions.out
but it did not work.

Any idea how to pass parameters and to re-direct the output using such commands using Shell function in VB?
Or is there any other function(VB or Windows API) which will return the Access Control List(ACL) associated with a file or folder?

Thanks for reading this.

 

[makeshift]

create a batch file and put the command in it then shell the batch file or set a reference to Microsoft scripting runtime then dimension an object as FileSystemObject and obtain file properties that way

 

[WarriorPrincess]

I have had this problem before. Try shelling out:
"cmd /c cacls c:\test....................."

 

[cdls]

Thanks a lot to both of you. It did work when I put cmd /c before cacls command.
Thanks again.
Your answers were very useful to me.