Thanks for the mention Raf, unfortunately I'm not much of a developer so addressing the concerns with my patch was a bit out of my league. I'm happy to assist if anyone wants to try and get it rebased/updated.
cheers On Tue, 29 Aug 2023 at 12:38, raf <invalid.nore...@gnu.org> wrote: > Follow-up Comment #1, bug #64605 (project findutils): > > Hi, This has come up before: #58941 (and to a lesser extent #64253). There > is > a patch from seven years ago and some list discussion but there are some > issues with it. It looks promising but it seems that it went quiet five > years > ago. > > Have a look at #58941. There is a link to a version of findutils by Morgan > Weetman on gitlab that has an -xattr predicate, and there is a link to the > mailing list discussion. Perhaps you could use Morgan Weetman's version. > > Until the issues are resolved, another alternative is my rawhide (rh) > program > (https://codeberg.org/raforg/rawhide). It's another file finder that can > do > almost everything that GNU find does (except -fstype), and it can also > search > by extended attributes (names and values), and by access control lists > ("POSIX" style (for Linux/macOS/Cygwin) and NFSv4 style (for > FreeBSD/Solaris)), and by ext2-style file attributes or BSD-style file > flags > (e.g., immutable, append_only), and by libmagic filetypes/mimetypes. > > There are some commercial versions of find (macOS/Solaris) that can search > for > files that have extended attributes but they can only search by the > existence > of EAs or by their names, not by their values. > > > _______________________________________________________ > > Reply to this item at: > > <https://savannah.gnu.org/bugs/?64605> > > _______________________________________________ > Message sent via Savannah > https://savannah.gnu.org/ > > > -- "If your expectations don't match reality, disappointment is guaranteed." Morgan Weetman Services Content Architect M: +61 439 469 793 https://www.redhat.com/en/services/training-and-certification
