Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)

Larry Hall (Cygwin) reply-to-list-only-lh@cygwin.com
Thu Nov 5 22:15:00 GMT 2009


On 11/05/2009 05:00 PM, aputerguy wrote:
>
> 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)?

find /c -exec getfacl {} \+>  mysavefile

?

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