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| author | Kamil Dudka <kdudka@redhat.com> | 2010-11-19 12:40:11 +0100 |
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| committer | Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> | 2010-11-23 16:27:04 +0100 |
| commit | 846ca47a2411f33c8ca0572b0e565664d851fee4 (patch) | |
| tree | c4da697f180dc7e57621d902f314f6b3313b8056 | |
| parent | b5b7cad792b9e7039a1f9614c16f8d4872971ee9 (diff) | |
| download | attr-846ca47a2411f33c8ca0572b0e565664d851fee4.tar.gz | |
setfattr.1: document supported encodings of values
reported by Tomasz Kepczynski at https://bugzilla.redhat.com/58751
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/setfattr.1 | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/man/man1/setfattr.1 b/man/man1/setfattr.1 index c36b024..2d33f50 100644 --- a/man/man1/setfattr.1 +++ b/man/man1/setfattr.1 @@ -46,7 +46,15 @@ for each specified file. Specifies the name of the extended attribute to set. .TP .BR \-v " \f2value\f1, " \-\-value "=\f2value\f1" -Specifies the new value for the extended attribute. +Specifies the new value of the extended attribute. There are three methods +available for encoding the value. If the given string is enclosed in double +quotes, the inner string is treated as text. In that case, backslashes and +double quotes have special meanings and need to be escaped by a preceding +backslash. Any control characters can be encoded as a backslash followed by +three digits as its ASCII code in octal. If the given string begins with 0x or +0X, it expresses a hexadecimal number. If the given string begins with 0s or +0S, base64 encoding is expected. See also the \-\-encoding option of +getfattr(1). .TP .BR \-x " \f2name\f1, " \-\-remove "=\f2name\f1" Remove the named extended attribute entirely. |