LKBEN11625: What is the at sign @ on a Mac when you do an ls -la.


Symptom

When you check the permissions, you see the at sign at the end. (e.g. -rw-r--r--@)

Cause

This is by design and means that the file has extended attributes.

Solution

When you list the files, you notice an at sign at the end. This means there are extended attributes.

To list these attributes you use:

ls -l
or
ls -@

To remove these attributes, you can use:

xattr -c filename.ext

Have fun.

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About the Author

Author: Wim Peeters - Keskon GmbH & Co. KG

Wim Peeters is electronics engineer with an additional master in IT and over 30 years of experience, including time spent in support, development, consulting, training and database administration. Wim has worked with SQL Server since version 6.5. He has developed in C/C++, Java and C# on Windows and Linux. He writes knowledge base articles to solve IT problems and publishes them on the Lubby Knowledge Platform.

Latest update: 23-12-2022