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

Kevin Locke <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.gnu.findutils.bugs
Message-ID <20200813022113.GA279088@kevinolos>
Hi Morgan,

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).

I have to admit that this feature isn't top priority for me at the
moment (-exec, although not ideal, works well enough for my current
needs), so there is no hurry.  But I would like to help implement it
eventually and I do think your code could be useful (to me and others)
if you have a chance to post it.

Thanks for starting on it and for jumping in on this issue!

Best,
Kevin
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