Command-line tool

acl

brew/acl

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Commands for manipulating POSIX access control lists

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Linux

brew install acl

Display the file access control list

getfacl path/to/file_or_directory

Display the file access control list with numeric user and group IDs

getfacl -n path/to/file_or_directory

Display the file access control list with tabular output format

getfacl -t path/to/file_or_directory

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