Re: find [extended] attributes

[Pietro Bertera]

Hi,

2012/11/16 James Youngman <address@hidden>:

>> Has anyone had any though of this? Wouldn't options such as these ones:
>
> Leslie (see the To: line) has actually implemented something but it
> has not been merged.
>
>
>> find -attr [+/-]d (match all files with "attribute" "d" set/unset)
>> find -xattr [!]name[=value] (match all files with "extended attribute" 
>> "name" [set to "value"])

Great feature! Will be very nice if can be merged in findutils project.
Some years ago I sent a similar feature request and patch for Posix.1e
ACL support ( http://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?27558  ) but is still
ignored by findutils maintainer.

Regards,

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Bertera Pietro
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