getfattr - get extended attributes of filesystem objects
getfattr [-hRLP] -n name [-e en]
pathname...
getfattr [-hRLP] -d [-e en]
[-m pattern] pathname...
For each file, getfattr displays the file name, and the set
of extended attribute names (and optionally values) which are associated
with that file. Per default only attributes in the user namespace are
displayed, see -m.
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.
- -n name,
--name=name
- Dump the value of the named extended attribute.
- -d, --dump
- Dump the values of all matched extended attributes.
- -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 hexadecimal and base64 are prefixed with 0x and 0s,
respectively.
- -h,
--no-dereference
- Do not dereference symlinks. Instead of the file a symlink refers to, the
symlink itself is examined. Unless doing a logical (-L) traversal, do not
traverse symlinks to directories.
- -m pattern,
--match=pattern
- Only include attributes with names matching the regular expression
pattern. The default value for pattern is
"^user\\.", which includes all the attributes in the user
namespace. Specify "-" for including all attributes. Refer to
attr(5) for a more detailed discussion of namespaces.
- --absolute-names
- Do not strip leading slash characters ('/'). The default behaviour is to
strip leading slash characters.
- --only-values
- Dump out the raw extended attribute value(s) without encoding them.
- -R,
--recursive
- List the attributes of all files and directories recursively.
- -L, --logical
- Logical walk, follow symbolic links to directories. The default behaviour
is to follow symbolic link arguments unless --no-dereference is given, and
to skip symbolic links encountered in subdirectories. Only effective in
combination with -R.
- -P,
--physical
- Physical walk, do not follow symbolic links to directories. This also
skips symbolic link arguments. Only effective in combination with -R.
- --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.
Andreas Gruenbacher, <a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at> and
the SGI XFS development team, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>.
Please send your bug reports or comments to
<https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=attr> or
<acl-devel@nongnu.org>.