Issue
I ran ls -la on mac terminal and i got below output :
rwxr-xr-x 4 user staff 136 Oct 2 18:55 .
drwxr-xr-x 6 user staff 204 Aug 23 11:39 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 user staff 2622 Oct 2 18:03 File2.php
-rw-r--r--@ 1 user staff 392 Oct 2 19:14 File1.php
# ^
# this one here
If you see the permission for File1.php, there is an @ at the end.What is the significance / meaning of this @ sign here?
If it is of any worth, file1 is created through dreamweaver application.
Not sure what keyword to use to google it, tried some, found nothing so come to last resort! :)
Solution
If there is an @ in the permissions fields, the file or directory has extended attributes. According to the documentation extended attributes are arbitrary metadata stored with a file, but separate from the filesystem attributes (such as modification time or file size). The metadata is often a null-terminated UTF-8 string, but can also be arbitrary binary data. You can run ls -@l to list them
Answered By - Alex Answer Checked By - Cary Denson (WPSolving Admin)
