Re: File attribute problem

Justin C. Walker <[email protected]> squaked out on Mon 01-Aug-2011 22:55
> On Aug 1, 2011, at 21:13 , Richard Peskin wrote:
> 
>> I have a volume where all the files have the following type attribute:
>> drwxr-xr-x@  11 rpeskin  staff      374 Jan 13  2010 Snow Leopard
>> 
>> The "@" attribute is a real problem; it prevents write access to the file or Volume unless admin authorization is supplied. I have no idea how this "@" got there; the volume (a disk partition) was created in the usual way with diskutil. How can I get rid of these "@" attributes?
> 
> I don't think the "@" decorator prevents any access by itself.  The "@" decorator in 'ls' output is explained in the man page (the 'file' has extended attributes).  To see what attributes are present, use the 'xattr' command (use "xattr -h" to see what the command does).

xattr is not needed, it’s functionality is part of the standard ls command and has been since 10.5, iirc. Certainly 10.6.

ls -l@ <file> will show the extended attributes.

$ ls -lnd@ bin
drwxr-xr-x@ 62 501  20  2108 Jul 21 23:30 bin
	com.apple.FinderInfo	  32 

~/ $ ls -lnd@ bin/sixsyn
-rwx------@ 1 501  20  1441 Jul 31 22:01 bin/sixsyn
	com.apple.FinderInfo	  32 
	com.apple.TextEncoding	  15 

Similarly, for files with a ‘+’ you can use the -e flag:


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