getea Command

Purpose

Retrieves named extended attributes from a file.

Syntax

getea [-n Name] [ -l ] [-e RegExp] [-s] FileName

Description

The getea command reads named extended attributes from a file. If the -n Name parameter is specified then just extended attributes matching Name are retrieved.

Note: To prevent naming collisions, JFS2 has reserved the 8-character prefix (0xf8)SYSTEM(0xF8) for system-defined extended attributes. Avoid using this prefix for naming user-defined extended attributes.

If the -e RegExp parameter is specified then just extended attributes matching the regular expression RegExp are retrieved. If neither -n or -e flags are specified all extended attributes are retrieved.

This command is not used to get ACLs. The aclget command is used to get ACLs.

Flags

Item	Description
-e RegExp	Specifies a regular expression to retrieve all extended attributes which match. The values are displayed in character format.
-l	Specifies to get the extended attributes from the symbolic link itself rather than the file to which it is pointing.
-n Name	Specifies the name of specific extended attributes to retrieve. The values are displayed in character format.
-s	Displays only the names and not the values for the extended attributes.
FileName	Specifies the file from which to read the extended attributes.

Exit Status

Item	Description
0	Successful completion.
Positive integer	An error occurred.

Security

Attention RBAC users and Trusted AIX users: This command can perform privileged operations. Only privileged users can run privileged operations. For more information about authorizations and privileges, see Privileged Command Database in Security. For a list of privileges and the authorizations associated with this command, see the lssecattr command or the getcmdattr subcommand.

Examples

To retrieve all named extended attributes for the file design.html, type:
```
getea design.html
```
To retrieve the named extended attribute, Approver, for the file design.html, type:
```
getea -n Approver design.html
```
To retrieve just the names of all named extended attributes for the file design.html, type:
```
getea -s design.html
```
To retrieve all named extended attributes for the symbolic link design.html, type:
```
getea -l design.html
```

Location

/usr/sbin