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| author | Achilles Gaikwad <agaikwad@redhat.com> | 2020-02-06 10:09:38 +0530 |
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| committer | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruenba@redhat.com> | 2020-02-06 16:56:44 +0100 |
| commit | 1c14b97fba52560ee4812b73288b3d6ca672f9a5 (patch) | |
| tree | e53d6baab638f9530dfcef9370836538bdcda034 /man/man1/setfattr.1 | |
| parent | ff1b6ff8e823a7c086209b2409082d55b018b34d (diff) | |
| download | attr-1c14b97fba52560ee4812b73288b3d6ca672f9a5.tar.gz | |
man: add examples to setfattr.1
The current man page for setfattr does not state that the user needs to
add the prefix "user." With the help of examples we demonstrate that the
user needs to add a namespace as prefix.
Signed-off-by: Achilles Gaikwad <agaikwad@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'man/man1/setfattr.1')
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/setfattr.1 | 12 |
1 files changed, 12 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/setfattr.1 b/man/man1/setfattr.1 index 922caf2..95a885e 100644 --- a/man/man1/setfattr.1 +++ b/man/man1/setfattr.1 @@ -94,6 +94,18 @@ 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. +.SH EXAMPLES +Add extended attribute to user namespace: +.PP +.nf +.B "$ setfattr -n user.foo -v bar file.txt +.fi +.PP +To add md5sum of the file as an extended attribute: +.PP +.nf +.B "# setfattr -n trusted.md5sum -v d41d8cd98f00b204e00998ecf8427e file.txt +.fi .SH AUTHOR Andreas Gruenbacher, .RI < a.gruenbacher@bestbits.at > |