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Top Forums Shell Programming and Scripting Unix - one to one correspondence to files Post 302691163 by hergp on Friday 24th of August 2012 02:44:05 AM
Old 08-24-2012
If you have a filesystem that supports extended attributes, you could use them to store information, like:
Code:
$ setfattr -n user.key -v value test
$ getfattr -n user.key test
# file: test
user.key="value"

---------- Post updated at 08:44 ---------- Previous update was at 08:42 ----------

BTW: don't forget to prefix the attribute name with "user." or you'll get an setfattr: test: Operation not supported error.
 

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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 for the extended attribute. -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)
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