funky "@" permission flag after Leopard upgrade

[yeroen]

what in the bloody hell is that "@" permission flag I have on some of my files after upgrading to Leopard, i.e.

-rw-r--r--@ uid:guid myfile

That's where the sticky bit goes, but the sticky bit is denoted by a 't'

 

[plinden]

It's new in Leopard to let you know that file/directory has extended attributes. Since you're using terminal, you can use xattr (ie. xattr myfile)to see what the extended attributes are.

 

[emptyCup]

what in the bloody hell is that "@" permission flag I have on some of my files after upgrading to Leopard

The OS is now making extensive use of metadata, the @ indicates extended attributes. See John Siracusa's explanation here. In fact, read the whole review since no one does this better.

 

[yeroen]

thanks

 

[dicklieber]

Would have been nice if Apple updated their ls man page to reflect this.