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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/CHANGES | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | man/man1/getfattr.1 | 13 |
2 files changed, 8 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/doc/CHANGES b/doc/CHANGES index 035f09f..29e367f 100644 --- a/doc/CHANGES +++ b/doc/CHANGES @@ -1,5 +1,7 @@ attr-2.4.41 - remove outdated doc/ea-conv thanks to Andreas Gruenbacher + - Update getfattr man page for symlink related options + thanks to Andreas G. attr-2.4.40 (21 November 2007) - Address compilation warning about signedness in libattr.c diff --git a/man/man1/getfattr.1 b/man/man1/getfattr.1 index 97251fa..3655044 100644 --- a/man/man1/getfattr.1 +++ b/man/man1/getfattr.1 @@ -56,11 +56,8 @@ while strings encoded as hexidecimal and base64 are prefixed with 0x and 0s, respectively. .TP .BR \-h ", " \-\-no-dereference -Do not follow symlinks. -If -.I pathname -is a symbolic link, the symbolic link itself is examined, -rather than the file the link refers to. +Do not dereference symlinks. Instead of the file a symlink refers to, the +symlink itself is examined. .TP .BR \-m " \f2pattern\f1, " \-\-match "=\f2pattern\f1" Only include attributes with names matching the regular expression @@ -84,13 +81,15 @@ Dump out the extended attribute value(s) only. List the attributes of all files and directories recursively. .TP .BR \-L ", " \-\-logical -Logical walk, follow symbolic links. +Logical walk, follow symbolic links to directories. The default behaviour is to follow symbolic link arguments, and to skip symbolic links encountered in subdirectories. +Only effective in combination with \-R. .TP .BR \-P ", " \-\-physical -Physical walk, skip all symbolic links. +Physical walk, do not follow symbolic links to directories. This also skips symbolic link arguments. +Only effective in combination with \-R. .TP .B \-\-version Print the version of |