What does the @ at the end of access rights stand for?

Question

When I ls -la, one of my folders has the following notation

drwxr-xr-x@ 28

what does @ stand for?

For the record, I am using OSX.

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Aug 13 '13 at 20:33

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It means that the folder or file has extended attributes. use

xattr -l <filename>

to see them.

answered Aug 13 '13 at 20:33

EBGreen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extended_file_attributes – justbrowsing Aug 13 '13 at 20:34

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 13 '13 at 20:37

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

answered Aug 13 '13 at 20:37

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