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| author | Bob Ippolito <bob@redivi.com> | 2022-04-28 08:06:59 -0700 |
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| committer | GitHub <noreply@github.com> | 2022-04-28 08:06:59 -0700 |
| commit | 13aea2160b29d3eda87b614a6fca9ad873e44e11 (patch) | |
| tree | e0255d8d8a7a2041e51078f54c2820f8455bc467 | |
| parent | 310cbe66275e8df6dd2ddd2ff40149c8b5d00453 (diff) | |
| download | xattr-13aea2160b29d3eda87b614a6fca9ad873e44e11.tar.gz | |
Clarifications to the README update
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@@ -4,7 +4,12 @@ xattr .. image:: https://travis-ci.org/xattr/xattr.svg?branch=master :target: https://travis-ci.org/xattr/xattr -xattr is a Python script wrapper for viewing and editing extended filesystem attributes on the command line. It is provided as an alternative to getfattr, setfattr, etc. for Unix-y environments that don't have those. +xattr is a Python wrapper for extended filesystem attributes. + +xattr also ships with an `xattr` command line tool for viewing and +editing extended filesystem attributes. On platforms that support or +ship with the attr package, you may prefer to use the `getfattr` +and `setfattr` command line tools from the attr package. Extended attributes extend the basic attributes of files and directories in the file system. They are stored as name:data pairs associated with |