Re: [bug #58941] wishlist: Support for -xattr -xattrname

[Kevin Locke]

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