On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:24:26AM -0400, erik quanstrom wrote: > ron wrote: >> 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 > > hey, how do you grep for stuff in extended attributes? > > - erik
grepfattr, I should think. (Now with ANSI color support!)
