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.\" Developed by the TrustedBSD Project. 29.\" Support for POSIX.1e access control lists. 30.\" 31.Dd June 19, 2023 32.Dt GETFACL 1 33.Os 34.Sh NAME 35.Nm getfacl 36.Nd get ACL information 37.Sh SYNOPSIS 38.Nm 39.Op Fl dhinqv 40.Op Ar 41.Sh DESCRIPTION 42The 43.Nm 44utility writes discretionary access control information associated with 45the specified file(s) to standard output. 46If the 47.Xr getconf 1 48utility indicates that 49.Brq Va _POSIX_ACL_EXTENDED 50is not in effect for a 51.Ar file 52then the standard discretionary access permissions are interpreted as 53an ACL containing only the required ACL entries. 54.Pp 55The following option is available: 56.Bl -tag -width indent 57.It Fl d , Fl -default 58The operation applies to the default ACL of a directory instead of the 59access ACL. 60An error is generated if a default ACL cannot be associated with 61.Ar file . 62This option is not valid for NFSv4 ACLs. 63.It Fl h 64If the target of the operation is a symbolic link, return the ACL from 65the symbolic link itself rather than following the link. 66.It Fl i 67For NFSv4 ACLs, append numerical ID at the end of each entry containing 68user or group name. 69Ignored for POSIX.1e ACLs. 70.It Fl n , Fl -numeric 71Display user and group IDs numerically rather than converting to 72a user or group name. 73Ignored for POSIX.1e ACLs. 74.It Fl q , Fl -omit-header 75Do not write commented information about file name and ownership. 76This is 77useful when dealing with filenames with unprintable characters. 78.It Fl s , Fl -skip-base 79Skip files that only have a trivial ACL, as defined by 80.Xr acl_is_trivial_np 3 . 81Notably, files with POSIX.1e ACLs that only represent the owner, group and other 82to match the mode of the file will be skipped. 83.It Fl v 84For NFSv4 ACLs, display access mask and flags in a verbose form. 85Ignored for POSIX.1e ACLs. 86.El 87.Pp 88The following operand is available: 89.Bl -tag -width indent 90.It Ar file 91A pathname of a file whose ACL shall be retrieved. 92If 93.Ar file 94is not specified, or a 95.Ar file 96is specified as 97.Fl , 98then 99.Nm 100reads a list of pathnames, each terminated by one newline character, 101from the standard input. 102.El 103.Pp 104For an explanation of the ACL syntax, see the 105.Xr setfacl 1 106manual page. 107.Sh EXIT STATUS 108.Ex -std 109.Sh EXAMPLES 110.Dl getfacl / 111.Pp 112Retrieve ACL for the directory 113.Pa / . 114.Pp 115.Dl getfacl -d / 116.Pp 117Retrieve the default ACL for the directory 118.Pa / , 119if any. 120.Sh SEE ALSO 121.Xr setfacl 1 , 122.Xr acl 3 , 123.Xr getextattr 8 , 124.Xr setextattr 8 , 125.Xr acl 9 , 126.Xr extattr 9 127.Sh STANDARDS 128The 129.Nm 130utility is expected to be 131.Tn IEEE 132Std 1003.2c compliant. 133.Sh HISTORY 134Extended Attribute and Access Control List support was developed as part 135of the 136.Tn TrustedBSD 137Project and introduced in 138.Fx 5.0 . 139.Sh AUTHORS 140.An Robert N M Watson 141