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Subject:	Re: Is there a fast way to get acl's for the whole filesystem (or chunk thereof)
Date:	Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:37:45 -0500
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> 
> 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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