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tsk

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Jan 14, 2004
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I have noticed that some of my file permissions are showing up with a "@" or a "+" at the end. I ran disk utility to fix permissions and they're still there.

Anybody seen this before or know what it means? Is this normal? BTW, it's a Macbook Pro if that matters. Here's some sample (pruned) output from ls -al

-rw-r--r--@ 1 me staff 15364 Aug 10 12:53 .DS_Store
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 me staff 170 Jun 9 16:55 Public
drwxr-xr-x+ 5 me staff 170 Jun 9 16:55 Sites

Edit: found the solutions...

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

You can see these attributes with a "ls -le".
 
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