Summary of tasks and their associated commands

Table 1 summarizes the tasks that you might want to do and their associated commands.

Table 1. ACL tasks and their associated commands. This table lists each task and the associated shell command.
Task	Shell command
Add, delete, or update an ACL	setfacl
Display contents of an ACL	getfacl
Update permission bits	setfacl or chmod
Display permission bits	ls or getfacl
Find out whether files have extended ACL entries	ls
Search for files or directories that have various ACL properties	find
Determine if the file system and security product support ACLs	df
Determine if the file system supports ACLs (_PC_ACL) and also determine the maximum number of ACL entries that the file system can support (_PC_ACL_ENTRIES_MAX)	getconf
Restore ACL information or store the information in an archive	pax or tar
Preserve the ACLs for files and directories	The -p option for cp and the -Z option for mv.
Test files and directories for extended ACL information. Also test for directory ACLs and file default ACLs on directories.	filetest, test, [...] and [[...]] reserved-word command