SETFATTR(1)							  File Utilities						       SETFATTR(1)

NAME

       setfattr - set extended attributes of filesystem objects

SYNOPSIS

       setfattr [-h] -n name [-v value] pathname...
       setfattr [-h] -x name pathname...
       setfattr [-h] --restore=file

DESCRIPTION

       The setfattr command associates a new value with an extended attribute name for each specified file.

OPTIONS

       -n name, --name=name
	   Specifies the name of the extended attribute to set.

       -v value, --value=value
	   Specifies  the  new	value of the extended attribute. There are three methods available for encoding the value.  If the given string is
	   enclosed in double quotes, the inner string is treated as text. In that case, backslashes and double quotes have special  meanings  and
	   need to be escaped by a preceding backslash. Any control characters can be encoded as a backslash followed by three digits as its ASCII
	   code in octal. If the given string begins with 0x or 0X, it expresses a hexadecimal number. If the given string begins with 0s  or  0S,
	   base64 encoding is expected.  See also the --encoding option of getfattr(1).

       -x name, --remove=name
	   Remove the named extended attribute entirely.

       -h, --no-dereference
	   Do not follow symlinks.  If pathname is a symbolic link, it is not followed, but is instead itself the inode being modified.

       --restore=file
	   Restores extended attributes from file.  The file must be in the format generated by the getfattr command with the --dump option.  If a
	   dash (-) is given as the file name, setfattr reads from standard input.

       --version
	   Print the version of setfattr 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@bestbits.at> and the SGI XFS development team, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>.

       Please send your bug reports or comments to these addresses.

SEE ALSO

       getfattr(1), and attr(5).

Dec 2001							Extended Attributes						       SETFATTR(1)