GETFATTR(1)			File Utilities			   GETFATTR(1)

NAME
       getfattr - get extended attributes of filesystem objects

SYNOPSIS
       getfattr [-hRLP] -n name [-e en] pathname...
       getfattr [-hRLP] -d [-e en] [-m pattern] pathname...

DESCRIPTION
       For each file, getfattr displays the file name, and the set of extended
       attribute names (and optionally values) which are associated with that
       file. Per default only attributes in the user namespace are displayed,
       see -m.

       The output format of getfattr -d is as follows:
	       1:  # file: somedir/
	       2:  user.name0="value0"
	       3:  user.name1="value1"
	       4:  user.name2="value2"
	       5:  ...

       Line 1 identifies the file name for which the following lines are being
       reported.  The remaining lines (lines 2 to 4 above) show the name and
       value pairs associated with the specified file.

OPTIONS
       -n name, --name=name
	   Dump the value of the named extended attribute.

       -d, --dump
	   Dump the values of all matched extended attributes.

       -e en, --encoding=en
	   Encode values after retrieving them.	 Valid values of en are
	   "text", "hex", and "base64".	 Values encoded as text strings are
	   enclosed in double quotes ("), while strings encoded as hexadecimal
	   and base64 are prefixed with 0x and 0s, respectively.

       -h, --no-dereference
	   Do not dereference symlinks. Instead of the file a symlink refers
	   to, the symlink itself is examined.	Unless doing a logical (-L)
	   traversal, do not traverse symlinks to directories.

       -m pattern, --match=pattern
	   Only include attributes with names matching the regular expression
	   pattern.  The default value for pattern is "^user\\.", which
	   includes all the attributes in the user namespace. Specify "-" for
	   including all attributes.  Refer to xattr(7) for a more detailed
	   discussion of namespaces.

       --absolute-names
	   Do not strip leading slash characters ('/').	 The default behaviour
	   is to strip leading slash characters.

       --only-values
	   Dump out the raw extended attribute value(s) without encoding them.

       -R, --recursive
	   List the attributes of all files and directories recursively.

       -L, --logical
	   Logical walk, follow symbolic links to directories.	The default
	   behaviour is to follow symbolic link arguments unless
	   --no-dereference is given, and to skip symbolic links encountered
	   in subdirectories.  Only effective in combination with -R.

       -P, --physical
	   Physical walk, do not follow symbolic links to directories.	This
	   also skips symbolic link arguments.	Only effective in combination
	   with -R.

       --version
	   Print the version of getfattr 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, <andreas.gruenbacher@gmail.com> and the SGI XFS
       development team, <linux-xfs@oss.sgi.com>.

       Please send your bug reports or comments to
       <https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=attr> or
       <acl-devel@nongnu.org>.

SEE ALSO
       setfattr(1), xattr(7)

Dec 2001		      Extended Attributes		   GETFATTR(1)