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getfattr

Table of contents

1. TL;DR
2. Further readings
3. Sources

TL;DR

# Install the tool.
apt install 'attr'
dnf install 'attr'

# Get values for specific extended attributes.
getfattr -n 'name' 'path/to/file.1' … 'path/to/file.N'

Further readings

• setfattr

Sources

All the references in the further readings section, plus the following:

• man page
• Tag files in GNU/Linux