Ownership of Files and Folders

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So I try to intergrate a Button on my Toolbar to take Ownership of selected files and folders.
I tried several scripts e.g. {sourcepath$} in place of {filepath$}, but the following Button works so far the best.
Unfortunately this works only with files not folders too.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none"> <label>Take Ownership</label> <tip>Take Ownership</tip> <icon1>C:\Windows\regedit.exe,0</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>@confirm Take Ownership?|Yes|No</instruction> <instruction>@runmode hide</instruction> <instruction>@admin</instruction> <instruction>takeown /f {filepath$} /r /d Y</instruction> <instruction>icacls {filepath$} /grant administrators:F /t</instruction> </function> </button>

The main problem is probably the passing of the file sequence to the command line console.
I hope there is a way to realize this Button.

Sorry, for my bad English.

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I'm not 100% sure how takeown and icacls work as I've only used them in passing, but from looking at their command-line help and the arguments you are passing to them:

  • You're passing the /r argument to takeown; that tells it to "operate on files in [the] specified directory and all subdirectories."

  • You're passing the /t argument to icacls; that tells it to operate "on all matching files/directories below the directories specified."

So I'm guessing that either or both of the tools expects a directory when run in that way and will ignore any filenames passed to it.

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Thank you for your first answer.

The Problem is not so much in the takeown or icacls commands, I have modified them accordingly.

I need one single Opus control sequence for passing both file and folder paths to takeown respectively icacls.
And how I tell Opus to use one takeown/icacls argument set for files and another argument set for folders and if posible in one single button.

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I have finished the planed Button.
Now it works with files and folders.

<?xml version="1.0"?> <button backcol="none" display="both" textcol="none"> <label>Take Ownership</label> <tip>Take Ownership for selected files and folders</tip> <icon1>C:\Windows\regedit.exe,0</icon1> <function type="normal"> <instruction>@confirm Take Ownership?|Yes|No</instruction> <instruction>@runmode hide</instruction> <instruction>@admin</instruction> <instruction>takeown /f {file} /r /a</instruction> <instruction>icacls {file} /grant administrators:F /t</instruction> </function> </button>