-nname, --name=name
Dump the value of the named extended attribute.
-d, --dump
Dump the values of all matched extended attributes.
-een, --encoding=en
Encode values after retrieving them. Valid values of en are "text", "hex", and "base64". Values
encoded as text strings are enclosed in double quotes ("), while strings encoded as hexadecimal and
base64 are prefixed with 0x and 0s, respectively.
-h, --no-dereference
Do not dereference symlinks. Instead of the file a symlink refers to, the symlink itself is examined.
Unless doing a logical (-L) traversal, do not traverse symlinks to directories.
-mpattern, --match=pattern
Only include attributes with names matching the regular expression pattern. The default value for
pattern is "^user\\.", which includes all the attributes in the user namespace. Specify "-" for
including all attributes. Refer to xattr(7) for a more detailed discussion of namespaces.
--absolute-names
Do not strip leading slash characters ('/'). The default behaviour is to strip leading slash
characters.
--only-values
Dump out the raw extended attribute value(s) without encoding them.
-R, --recursive
List the attributes of all files and directories recursively.
-L, --logical
Logical walk, follow symbolic links to directories. The default behaviour is to follow symbolic link
arguments unless --no-dereference is given, and to skip symbolic links encountered in subdirectories.
Only effective in combination with -R.
-P, --physical
Physical walk, do not follow symbolic links to directories. This also skips symbolic link arguments.
Only effective in combination with -R.
--version
Print the version of getfattr and exit.
--help
Print help explaining the command line options.
-- End of command line options. All remaining parameters are interpreted as file names, even if they
start with a dash character.