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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. 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 re-
maining lines (lines 2 to 4 above) show the name and value pairs associated with the spec-
ified file.

OPTIONS
-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 it-
self 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 de-
fault 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 de-
tailed discussion of namespaces.

--absolute-names
Do not strip leading slash characters ('/'). The default behaviour is to strip lead-
ing 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 fol-
low 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.

AUTHOR
Andreas Gruenbacher, <a.gruenbacher AT bestbits.at> and the SGI XFS development team, <linux-
xfs AT oss.com>.

Please send your bug reports or comments to <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=attr>
or <acl-devel AT nongnu.org>.