UNATTR(8)

📦 version 1.0, in arch rolling

💅 UNATTR(8) — the unattr page, bestie edition

okay so you found unattr in the UNATTR(8) section of the system administration utils — slay, let's get into it 💖

✨ NAME ✨

Unattr — removes the chosen xattr from files, recursively. that's it, that's the whole vibe 🎀

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

unattr [OPTION]... <FILE|DIRECTORY>...

🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Remove the chosen xattr from files, recursively. literally the entire job, and it does it recursively, no cap 🫶

✨ the flags ✨

  • -a, --attr — specify the name of a new attribute 👑 (yes bestie, the attribute name goes here)
  • -h, --help — help 🧚
  • -V, --version — show version number and copyright, iconic behavior honestly 🌈

🍓 EXAMPLES 🍓

these are copy-pasteable, do not come for me about the exact spelling 💀

Remove shake xattrs:

unattr --attr=shake.ptime FILES

Remove beagle xattrs:

unattr -a Beagle.MTime -a Beagle.AttrTime -a Beagle.Fingerprint -a Beagle.Uid FILES

look at that stack of -a flags — it's giving "I have four attributes and I'm not afraid to use them" 🔥

😭 REPORTING BUGS 😭

Report bugs to <brice.arnould+shake@gmail.com> or at https://github.com/unbrice/shake/issues — fr fr, they want to hear about it, so don't just suffer in silence 🙈

Copyright (C) 2006-2009 Brice Arnould. Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify documentation under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.2 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included in the file FDL.txt .

Copyright © 2006-2008 Brice Arnould. Unattr comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. You may redistribute copies of Unattr under the terms of the GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named GPL.txt.

bestie please note: ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY — that's not a vibe check, that's the actual license text, so take it seriously 💅

and that's the page!! this was Unattr 1.0, dated October 2026 — ty for reading, mwah, go remove some xattrs responsibly 🦋✨💖

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