> You might want to look at the thread "xattr and capability support" in > findutils-patc...@gnu.org: > http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/findutils-patches/2014-11/msg00000.html > > Dale
Thank you, that does look like what I'm looking for -- I should have checked that list first. I'll forward this over to the person that was asking about this capability on my backup tool (which uses find as its file/metadata collection mechanism).