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 pathname.

       -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 symbolic 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 interpreted as file names, even if they start with a dash character.

AUTHOR

       Andreas Gruenbacher, <a.gruenbacher@computer.org> and the SGI XFS development 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)