1.\"- 2.\" Copyright (c) 2000, 2001, 2002 Robert N. M. Watson 3.\" All rights reserved. 4.\" 5.\" This software was developed by Robert Watson for the TrustedBSD Project. 6.\" 7.\" Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without 8.\" modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions 9.\" are met: 10.\" 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright 11.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer. 12.\" 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright 13.\" notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the 14.\" documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution. 15.\" 16.\" THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE AUTHOR AND CONTRIBUTORS ``AS IS'' AND 17.\" ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE 18.\" IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE 19.\" ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHOR OR CONTRIBUTORS BE LIABLE 20.\" FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR CONSEQUENTIAL 21.\" DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF SUBSTITUTE GOODS 22.\" OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS INTERRUPTION) 23.\" HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT, STRICT 24.\" LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE) ARISING IN ANY WAY 25.\" OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF 26.\" SUCH DAMAGE. 27.\" 28.\" $FreeBSD$ 29.\" 30.\" Developed by the TrustedBSD Project. 31.\" Support for POSIX.1e access control lists. 32.\" 33.Dd September 4, 2009 34.Dt GETFACL 1 35.Os 36.Sh NAME 37.Nm getfacl 38.Nd get ACL information 39.Sh SYNOPSIS 40.Nm 41.Op Fl dhinqv 42.Op Ar 43.Sh DESCRIPTION 44The 45.Nm 46utility writes discretionary access control information associated with 47the specified file(s) to standard output. 48If the 49.Xr getconf 1 50utility indicates that 51.Brq Va _POSIX_ACL_EXTENDED 52is not in effect for a 53.Ar file 54then the standard discretionary access permissions are interpreted as 55an ACL containing only the required ACL entries. 56.Pp 57The following option is available: 58.Bl -tag -width indent 59.It Fl d 60The operation applies to the default ACL of a directory instead of the 61access ACL. 62An error is generated if a default ACL cannot be associated with 63.Ar file . 64This option is not valid for NFSv4 ACLs. 65.It Fl h 66If the target of the operation is a symbolic link, return the ACL from 67the symbolic link itself rather than following the link. 68.It Fl i 69For NFSv4 ACLs, append numerical ID at the end of each entry containing 70user or group name. 71Ignored for POSIX.1e ACLs. 72.It Fl n 73Display user and group IDs numerically rather than converting to 74a user or group name. 75Ignored for POSIX.1e ACLs. 76.It Fl q 77Do not write commented information about file name and ownership. 78This is 79useful when dealing with filenames with unprintable characters. 80.It Fl v 81For NFSv4 ACLs, display access mask and flags in a verbose form. 82Ignored for POSIX.1e ACLs. 83.El 84.Pp 85The following operand is available: 86.Bl -tag -width indent 87.It Ar file 88A pathname of a file whose ACL shall be retrieved. 89If 90.Ar file 91is not specified, or a 92.Ar file 93is specified as 94.Fl , 95then 96.Nm 97reads a list of pathnames, each terminated by one newline character, 98from the standard input. 99.El 100.Pp 101For an explanation of the ACL syntax, see the 102.Xr setfacl 1 103manual page. 104.Sh EXIT STATUS 105.Ex -std 106.Sh EXAMPLES 107.Dl getfacl / 108.Pp 109Retrieve ACL for the directory 110.Pa / . 111.Pp 112.Dl getfacl -d / 113.Pp 114Retrieve the default ACL for the directory 115.Pa / , 116if any. 117.Sh SEE ALSO 118.Xr setfacl 1 , 119.Xr acl 3 , 120.Xr getextattr 8 , 121.Xr setextattr 8 , 122.Xr acl 9 , 123.Xr extattr 9 124.Sh STANDARDS 125The 126.Nm 127utility is expected to be 128.Tn IEEE 129Std 1003.2c compliant. 130.Sh HISTORY 131Extended Attribute and Access Control List support was developed as part 132of the 133.Tn TrustedBSD 134Project and introduced in 135.Fx 5.0 . 136.Sh AUTHORS 137.An Robert N M Watson 138