Command-line tool

libcap

brew/libcap

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User-space interfaces to POSIX 1003.1e capabilities

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Type

Command-line tool

Install on

Linux

Last checked

25 Oct 2026, 21:09 UTC

Install it

Linux

brew install libcap

Get capabilities for the given files

getcap path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

Get capabilities for all the files recursively under the given directories

getcap -r path/to/directory1 path/to/directory2 ...

Display all searched entries even if no capabilities are set

getcap -v path/to/file1 path/to/file2 ...

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