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authorAkira Kurogane <akira.kurogane@gmail.com>2022-04-28 13:47:10 +0900
committerGitHub <noreply@github.com>2022-04-28 13:47:10 +0900
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.. image:: https://travis-ci.org/xattr/xattr.svg?branch=master
:target: https://travis-ci.org/xattr/xattr
-xattr is a Python wrapper for extended filesystem attributes.
+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.
Extended attributes extend the basic attributes of files and directories
in the file system. They are stored as name:data pairs associated with