How do I copy ACLs on Mac OS X?
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Most unix derivates can copy ACLs from one file to another with:
getfacl filename1 | setfacl -f - filename2
Unfortunately Mac OS X does not have the getfacl and setfacl commands, as they have rolled ACL handling into chmod. chmod -E accepts a list of ACLs on stdin, but I haven't found a command that will spit out ACLs in a suitable format on stdout. The best I have come up with is:
ls -led filename1 | tail +2 | sed 's/^ *[0-9][0-9]*: *//' | chmod -E filename2
Is there a more robust solution?
Bonus question: is there a nice way to do it in Python, without using any modules that aren't shipped with 10.6?
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