On Aug 20, 1:48 am, "Douglas A. Gwyn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "erik quanstrom" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message > > news:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > hey, how do you grep for stuff in extended attributes? > > grep -@, assuming that grep has been extended like other utilities (tar, > etc.) > > One would have thought that a better design would have been > /path/file/.attributes/... > Who makes these decisions, anyway??
Putting attributes in the same namespace as files introduces a whole new problem -- just as storing ownership in foo/.owners would.
