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What does mean number near extended attributes in ls -l@ output?

What does mean number near extended attributes in ls -l@ output and how i can get it?

drwxr-xr-x@ 41 root  wheel         1394 Nov  7 14:50 bin
com.apple.FinderInfo      32 //this number
com.apple.rootless     0 //and this
Solution

  • This is MacOS specific I think. Maybe you want to take a look at the xattr command here. The number displayed by ls is the size in bytes of the attribute. The meaning of the value of a particular attribute is arbitrary (as is the set of extended attributes a file may have) and really depends on the attribute itself.

    To be consistent with your question tags, you can also access extended attributes programatically from C by including sys/xattr.h.