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[fernan]

Hello. Running Bionicpup 32 bit on my laptop, frugal install, noted many files have the XATTR label shown on ROX filer.

Checked what XATTR they have, and I see

[rufwoof]

I usually use find with a exec action ... ls -l on each .txt file in this example

The {} just says where to put each matched filename and the ; at the end of command action needs to be escaped (\) so its not interpreted

find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls -l {} \;

.. alternatively you can use

find . -name "*.txt" -exec ls -l {} ";"

[fernan]

Thanks,

perhaps my question was not clear enough, I want to batch edit the files and remove the extended attributes.

[step]

You can remove extended attributes with either one of these two commands:

[fernan]

Thanks very much, I'll try the

[fernan]

This command seems to work fine :