curl/docs/cmdline-opts/xattr.md

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c: Copyright (C) Daniel Stenberg, daniel@haxx.se, et al. SPDX-License-Identifier: curl Long: xattr Help: Store metadata in extended file attributes Category: output Added: 7.21.3 Multi: boolean See-also:

• remote-time
• write-out
• verbose Example:
• --xattr -o storage $URL ---

--xattr

When saving output to a file, tell curl to store file metadata in extended file attributes. Currently, curl is stored in the creator attribute, the URL is stored in the xdg.origin.url attribute and, for HTTP, the content type is stored in the mime_type attribute. If the file system does not support extended attributes, a warning is issued.