

Anyone can add a attribute named for example “xyz” to a particular file. There's no standardize structure for names. (they are probably encoded in utf-8 or utf-16) The values can be text or binary, recommended to be less than 4 kibibit. Unicode characters of less than 128 bytes. Xattr -c filename What to Put in Extended Attribute?Įxtended Attributes are name/value pairs. Vmm:vmm xahlee$ Delete All Extended Attribute x: attr_value is represented as a hex string for input and output v: also print filename (automatic with -r and with multiple files)

l: print long format (attr_name: attr_value and hex output has offsets and The fourth form (-d) deletes the xattr attr_name. The third form (-w) sets the value of the xattr attr_name to the string attr_value. The second form (-p) prints the value of the xattr attr_name. The first form lists the names of all xattrs on the given file(s).
#Ls file access flags trminal mac os#
Widely used before Mac OS X, can be considered as a more elaborate extended attribute system, and may also hold main data of the file. For example, author name, file character encoding, short comments, security status. Extended Attributes Stores extra, customizable, small info.

For example, creation date, modification date, permission. The file or directory has extended security information (such as an accessĬontrol list), the permissions field printed by the -l option is followedīy a '+' character. Printed by the -l option is followed by a character. If the file or directory has extended attributes, the permissions field That means the file has Extended file attributes. Ls will show an at sign What does it mean?
