GETFATTR(1) File Utilities GETFATTR(1)
NAME
getfattr - get extended attributes of filesystem objects
SYNOPSIS
getfattr [-hRLP] -n name [-e en] pathname...
getfattr [-hRLP] -d [-e en] [-m pattern] pathname...
DESCRIPTION
For each file, getfattr displays the file name, and the set of extended
attribute names (and optionally values) which are associated with that
file.
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: ...
Line 1 identifies the file name for which the following lines are being
reported. The remaining lines (lines 2 to 4 above) show the name and
value pairs associated with the specified file.
OPTIONS
-n name, --name=name
Dump the value of the named extended attribute extended attribute.
-d, --dump
Dump the values of all extended attributes associated with path-
name.
-e en, --encoding=en
Encode values after retrieving them. Valid values of en are
"text", "hex", and "base64". Values encoded as text strings are
enclosed in double quotes ("), while strings encoded as hexidecimal
and base64 are prefixed with 0x and 0s, respectively.
-h, --no-dereference
Do not follow symlinks. If pathname is a symbolic link, the sym-
bolic link itself is examined, rather than the file the link refers
to.
-m pattern, --match=pattern
Only include attributes with names matching the regular expression
pattern. The default value for pattern is "^user\\.", -m which
includes all the attributes in the user namespace. Refer to
attr(5) for a more detailed discussion on namespaces.
--absolute-names
Do not strip leading slash characters (’/’). The default behaviour
is to strip leading slash characters.
--only-values
Dump out the extended attribute value(s) only.
-R, --recursive
List the attributes of all files and directories recursively.
-L, --logical
Logical walk, follow symbolic links. The default behaviour is to
follow symbolic link arguments, and to skip symbolic links encoun-
tered in subdirectories.
-P, --physical
Physical walk, skip all symbolic links. This also skips symbolic
link arguments.
--version
Print the version of getfattr and exit.
--help
Print help explaining the command line options.
-- End of command line options. All remaining parameters are inter-
preted as file names, even if they start with a dash character.
AUTHOR
Andreas Gruenbacher, <a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at> and the SGI XFS devel-
opment team, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>.
Please send your bug reports or comments to these addresses.
SEE ALSO
setfattr(1), and attr(5).
Dec 2001 Extended Attributes GETFATTR(1)
