-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 10:27:38AM -0800, Dan Hitt wrote: > BeOS had (and i imagine Haiku has) a file system that allows all kinds > of attributes to be attached to a file.
Most self-respecting file systems on Linux have extended attributes these days (at least for a value of "ext4" for "self-respecting", that is; for the others, consult the file system's man page ;-) You need the program "attr" for that, present in the Debian package "attr" (not installed by default). Sample session: # create a file to play with: tomas@trotzki:~$ touch mumpf # set mumpf's 'color' attribute to the value 'red' tomas@trotzki:~$ attr -s color -V red mumpf Attribute "color" set to a 3 byte value for mumpf: red # list mumpf's attributes: tomas@trotzki:~$ attr -l mumpf Attribute "color" has a 3 byte value for mumpf # get mumpf's 'color' attribute's value: tomas@trotzki:~$ attr -g color mumpf Attribute "color" had a 3 byte value for mumpf: red Is that what you were looking for? Cheers - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlo5XOoACgkQBcgs9XrR2kYhYgCdHInAo4tBODcWUMfRpLJzygIZ Oz4Anim4XbLSNgJjQ7ySF7/XciFgM0N7 =M+du -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
