On Wed, Dec 10, 2025 at 08:13:35AM +0000, BP25 <[email protected]> wrote:

> There was discussion about upgrading findutils to handle xattrs, see #58941.
> Was there any progress on this ever since?  Would be such an useful feature!
> Please CC: me because I'm not subscribed to the mailing list.

While waiting, you can use my rawhide (rh) program
(raf.org/rawhide) which lets you search by extended
attributes (names and values). It supports extended
attributes on Linux, FreeBSD, macOS, Solaris, and
Cygwin. The JSON output (-j) for the latest released
version (3.3) includes the encoded extended attributes
text that is used for searching (but with newlines
replaced with commas). The upcoming version (4.0)
replaces that with a structured JSON object where all
of the extended attribute names and values are separate
strings (possibly encoded).

cheers,
raf


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