What does @ mean in -rw-r–r–@

mac-osx

-rw-r--r--@ 1 abc  staff  1088808  8 31 09:55 marcus_gow

Anyone knows this, what's it for?

Best Answer

man ls

If the file or directory has extended attributes, the permissions field printed by the -l option is followed by a '@' character.

ls -l@ /path/to/marcus_gow
xattr -l /path/to/marcus_gow