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Tom Rodman wrote:

> slight, change in topic - if one uses cygwin setfacl to add multiple
> acls ( say rwx access to 4 different users, one acl per user )
> to a file, is there a way to copy a file using
> cygwin in a way that preserves these?

cp -p alone won't, but you could always do e.g.

$ cp -p file file2 && setfacl -f <(getfacl file) file2

I suppose "xcopy /o" is also an option, but obviously that won't grok
POSIX paths.

Brian

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