What about:
attr - For the XFS filesystem
setfattr / getfattr - For other file systems

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Chaim

On Wednesday 13 December 2006 13:06, Jonathan Ben Avraham wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> There is no way to "attach" any "properties" to any file in Raiserfs, ext3
> and most of the other file systems in common use in Linux. But you can
> embed the version designator in the file assuming that you build it using
> a compiler.
> Define a static string like
>
> String Version = "Version is $Header:$"
>
> On checkout from CVS you will have the CVS version in the Version string.
> Then build. To see the version designator do
>
> strings <executable filename> |grep Version
>
> You might have to make this String static and you might have to add a
> dummy reference to the String in order to prevent the compiler from
> optimizing it away.
>
>    - yba
>
> On Wed, 13 Dec 2006, Michael Sternberg wrote:
> > Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2006 12:42:13 +0200 (IST)
> > From: Michael Sternberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > To: [email protected]
> > Subject: File version
> >
> >
> > Hello everybody.
> >
> > Is it any way to attach a verion number to executable file ? In Windows
> > "right click -> properties -> Version" style ? Maybe as output of "file"
> > command ? Of course I always can implement "-v" or "--version" switch to
> > my executable, but do we have something more standard ?
> >
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