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Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)
- From: Dave Korn <dave dot korn dot cygwin at googlemail dot com>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:43:59 +0000
- Subject: Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)
- References: <26222793.post@talk.nabble.com>
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.
Don't use -exec; use -print0 and pipe the output to "xargs -0 getfacl".
cheers,
DaveK
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