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setfattr

Table of contents

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

TL;DR

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

# Add extended attributes.
setfattr -n 'name' -v 'value' 'path/to/file.1' … 'path/to/file.N'

# Remove extended attributes.
setfattr -x 'name' 'path/to/file.1' … 'path/to/file.N'

Further readings

• getfattr

Sources

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

• man page
• Tag files in GNU/Linux