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
-nname, --name=name
Dump the value of the named extended attribute extended attribute.
-d, --dump
Dump the values of all extended attributes associated with
pathname.
-een, --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 symbolic link itself is examined,
rather than the file the link refers to.
-mpattern, --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 encountered 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 interpreted as file names, even if they
start with a dash character.
AUTHOR
Andreas Gruenbacher,
<[email protected]>
and the SGI XFS development team,
<[email protected]>.
Please send your bug reports or comments to these addresses.
