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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: misc Added: 7.21.3 Multi: boolean See-also:

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

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--xattr

When saving output to a file, this option tells curl to store certain file metadata in extended file attributes. Currently, 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.