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Using extended attributes to tag files

5 points by alance

by sureglymop

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So you're telling me my size 0 file may unknowingly be a large key/value db? Neat.
The system call to read these attributes is getxattr(), for anyone curious.

by alance

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My recent journey sorting through years of files and categorizing/tagging them with the built-in Extended File Attribute functionality.