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
