There are versions of fileutils which include acl/attr support -
see http://acl.bestbits.at/
Some distros include this, I know that RH 8.0's fileutils
includes acl support.
"star" is an archiving tool with acl support - rh 8.0 has this as well.
Not sure about nautilus.
-Eric
On Sat, 29 Mar 2003, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> I am using user-space extended attributes for my own bookkeeping of
> files, so they contain important information. I'd now like to copy those
> files, incl. ext attributes, but I don't see how that could be done
> easily. I guess I could use xfsdump/restore, but that seems like total
> overkill, because they are designed to backup a whole filesystem, not to
> copy a single file or directory (recursively). I am merely looking for a
> cp that also copies ext attributes, preferably the standard cp with a
> special flag or alternatively a XFS-specific workalike (xfs_cp or
> whatever). I didn't find anything in the FAQ, manpages or on the web.
> Does something like that exist? Any solution apart from a long and
> strange xfsdump/restore invokation?
>
> All I found were an appearantly custom implementation of cp
> <http://www.mcsr.olemiss.edu/cgi-bin/man-cgi?cp+1> and that of Solaris
> <http://www.netsys.com/cgi-bin/solaris9?cp(1)>.
>
> BTW: Extended attributes could prove very useful (compare BeOS' usage of
> them), but that would need integration into standard tools like ls, cp,
> find, tar, up to Nautilus / Konqueror (I already filed an enhancement
> request for Nautilus about a year ago). Is there any plan to achieve that?
>
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