hey, how do you grep for stuff in extended attributes?

- erik


> On 8/17/07, Douglas A. Gwyn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> What do you mean by "extended attributes"?
>> I haven't noticed them on the Unix systems I use.
>>
> maybe I'm missing the question, but on my linux:
> 
> man -k extended | grep attrib | wc
>     21     183    1417
> libattr             (rpm) - Dynamic library for extended attribute support
> fgetxattr [getxattr] (2)  - retrieve an extended attribute value
> flistxattr [listxattr] (2)  - list extended attribute names
> (etc. It's a lot like read but, as usual, it needs  a new set of
> system calls ... 5 of them.
> And ls can't show them,  but ... we have getfattr/setfattr
>        The output format of getfattr -d is as follows:
>                1:  # file: somedir/
>                2:  user.name0="value0"
>                3:  user.name1="value1"
>                4:  user.name2="value2"
>                5:  ...
> 
> 
> it's everywhere. But it was too hard to put in in some normal way, so
> it went in from the side.
> 
> ron

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