Cacls.exe Does Not Print Percent Sign When Redirected to a File (282039)

SYMPTOMS

Cacls.exe in Windows 2000 does not handle the percent sign (%) when it is redirected to a file. The output file contains the information up to the percent sign and omits the percent file from the output file.

For example, create a folder called Test on drive C and then create a file called Test%test.txt in the Test folder. When you run cacls c:\test /c /t > c:\t.txt from the root folder, the output shows Testtest.txt instead of Test%test.txt.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date        Time      Version        Size    File name
   ------------------------------------------------------
   12/19/2000  10:08p   5.0.2195.3085  17,680  Cacls.exe

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes