man setfattr – Man page for setfattr

June 1, 2007 – 1:42 am

SETFATTR

Section: File Utilities (1)
Updated: Extended Attributes
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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).

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Index

NAME

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

OPTIONS

AUTHOR

SEE ALSO

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