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Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname
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Morgan Weetman |
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Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname |
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Thu, 13 Aug 2020 13:05:53 +1000 |
Thanks Kevin.. there's a thread in the mail list archive here:
https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-findutils/2018-07/threads.html ..
regarding what needed cleaning up
cheers
On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 12:47, Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name> wrote:
> On Thu, 2020-08-13 at 12:37 +1000, Morgan Weetman wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 12:21, Kevin Locke <kevin@kevinlocke.name> wrote:
> >> On Thu, 2020-08-13 at 12:02 +1000, Morgan Weetman wrote:
> >>> On Thu, 13 Aug 2020 at 00:34, Kevin Locke wrote:
> >>>> It would be great if find could support searching for files based on
> the
> >>>> presence/absence of extended attributes (xattrs).
> >>>
> >>> I wrote support for this a few years ago but it needs a lot of tidying
> to
> >>> be accepted and I haven't had the time. I can share the GitLab repo
> with
> >>> you if you'd like to play with it,
> >>
> >> That's great! I'll bet it would be a useful reference and starting
> >> point for potential implementers (myself included).
> >
> > Done.. I just made the repo public:
> https://gitlab.com/mweetman/findutils
> >
> > This also has support for finding files based on capabilities which was
> my
> > primary goal, xattr support was a (bonus) intermediate step I had to go
> > through along the way
> >
> > enjoy
>
> This is great! Do you recall what you had in mind to tidy it up before
> submitting it for inclusion? It looks reasonably clean and functional
> to me. (But I haven't tested yet - will soon!)
>
> Thanks again,
> Kevin
>
>
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- [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Kevin Locke, 2020/08/12
- Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Morgan Weetman, 2020/08/12
- Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Kevin Locke, 2020/08/13
- Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Bernhard Voelker, 2020/08/13
- Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Morgan Weetman, 2020/08/13
- Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Morgan Weetman, 2020/08/14
- Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Bernhard Voelker, 2020/08/14
- Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Morgan Weetman, 2020/08/16
- Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Tavian Barnes, 2020/08/17
[bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname, Kevin Locke, 2020/08/12