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author | Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 2002-02-26 02:32:48 +0000 |
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committer | Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com> | 2002-02-26 02:32:48 +0000 |
commit | 0406b735ddf3c52d4213cce77ba8c26d86979bee (patch) | |
tree | 97b64799087cc57fa747f8021819797a5ae3b4bc /man/man1/getfattr.1 | |
parent | 368202f9af7b38948fda25d9d07a2ed92fa7eb5c (diff) | |
download | attr-0406b735ddf3c52d4213cce77ba8c26d86979bee.tar.gz |
bump to 2.0.1, we should now be completely sync'd with Andreas for "attr".
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1 files changed, 20 insertions, 16 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/getfattr.1 b/man/man1/getfattr.1 index 93de390..014aa63 100644 --- a/man/man1/getfattr.1 +++ b/man/man1/getfattr.1 @@ -7,7 +7,6 @@ getfattr \- get extended attributes of filesystem objects \f3pathname\f1... \f3getfattr\f1 [\f3\-hRLP\f1] \f3\-d\f1 [\f3\-e en\f1] \c [\f3\-m pattern\f1] \f3pathname\f1... -\f3getfattr\f1 [\f3\-\-version\f1] .fi .SH DESCRIPTION For each file, @@ -52,42 +51,47 @@ Encode values after retrieving them. Valid values of .I 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. .TP .BR \-h ", " \-\-no-dereference -Do not follow symlinks - if +Do not follow symlinks. +If .I pathname -is a symbolic link, it is not followed, but is instead itself the -inode being examined. +is a symbolic link, the symbolic link itself is examined, +rather than the file the link refers to. .TP .BR \-m " \f2pattern\f1, " \-\-match "=\f2pattern\f1" +Only include attributes with names matching the regular expression +.IR pattern . +The default value for .I pattern -is a regular expression pattern to apply to the set of extended -attribute names being returned. -It defaults to "^user\\." if no +is "^user\\\\.", .B \-m -is specified, which causes -.B getfattr -to operate on only extended attributes from the user namespace. +which includes all the attributes in the user namespace. Refer to .BR attr (5) for a more detailed discussion on namespaces. .TP .B \-\-absolute-names -Suppress the stripping of leading '/' from an absolute -.IR pathname . +Do not strip leading slash characters ('/'). +The default behaviour is to strip leading slash characters. .TP .B \-\-only-values Dump out the extended attribute value(s) only. .TP .BR \-R ", " \-\-recursive -Recurse into subdirectories, dumping extended attributes for each file -encountered (breadth first). +List the attributes of all files and directories recursively. .TP .BR \-L ", " \-\-logical -Refines the \-R option - "logical walk" (do follow symbolic links). +Logical walk, follow symbolic links. +The default behaviour is to follow symbolic link arguments, and to +skip symbolic links encountered in subdirectories. .TP .BR \-P ", " \-\-physical -Refines the \-R option - "physical walk" (do not follow symbolic links). +Physical walk, skip all symbolic links. +This also skips symbolic link arguments. .TP .B \-\-version Print the version of |