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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)
- From: Andrew Schulman <schulman dot andrew at epamail dot epa dot gov>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:37:45 -0500
- Subject: Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)
- References: <26222793.post@talk.nabble.com>
>
> For backup, I am trying to dump a list of the acl's for the files being
> backed up since my backup program doesn't handle the acls.
>
> When I use something like:
> find /c -exec getfacl {} \; > mysavefile
>
> It is slow, in part at least because it has to fork a call to getfacl on
> each file found.
> Is there a faster way to do this (hopefully without having to go write
> C-code)?
getfacl -R?
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