On Thu, 2020-08-13 at 12:37 +1000, Morgan Weetman wrote: > On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 12:21, Kevin Locke <ke...@kevinlocke.name> wrote: >> On Thu, 2020-08-13 at 12:02 +1000, Morgan Weetman wrote: >>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 00:34, Kevin Locke wrote: >>>> It would be great if find could support searching for files based on the >>>> presence/absence of extended attributes (xattrs). >>> >>> I wrote support for this a few years ago but it needs a lot of tidying to >>> be accepted and I haven't had the time. I can share the GitLab repo with >>> you if you'd like to play with it, >> >> That's great! I'll bet it would be a useful reference and starting >> point for potential implementers (myself included). > > Done.. I just made the repo public: https://gitlab.com/mweetman/findutils > > This also has support for finding files based on capabilities which was my > primary goal, xattr support was a (bonus) intermediate step I had to go > through along the way > > enjoy
This is great! Do you recall what you had in mind to tidy it up before submitting it for inclusion? It looks reasonably clean and functional to me. (But I haven't tested yet - will soon!) Thanks again, Kevin
