What is the @ after directory listing mean?

Question

so I have some files in a directory and when I type ls -l I get

-rw-r--r--   1 home  staff   275 Apr  9 16:01 index.js
-rwxr-xr-x@  1 home  staff  2565 Apr  8 10:38 person.js
-rwxr-xr-x@  1 home  staff  4219 Apr  9 15:55 people.js
drwxr-xr-x  11 home  staff   374 Apr  9 15:43 node_modules
-rw-r--r--   1 home  staff   367 Apr  9 15:43 package.json

and I was wondering what the @ means after the person.js and people.js permissions

Ever thought of doing `man ls`? – Stéphane Chazelas Apr 09 '13 at 20:17 — Stéphane Chazelas, Apr 09 '13 at 20:17
Which OS? What is the output of `type ls`? – michas Apr 09 '13 at 20:18 — michas, Apr 09 '13 at 20:18
`type ls` outputs `ls is hashed (/bin/ls)` – Loourr Apr 09 '13 at 20:26 — Loourr, Apr 09 '13 at 20:26

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Apr 09 '13 at 20:18

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That's system specific, man ls will tell you. On Apple OS/X for instance, that's to say the file has extended attributes.

answered Apr 09 '13 at 20:18

Stéphane Chazelas

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It may not be in the manpage. With my GNU `ls`, a `+` at the end indicates POSIX extended attributes, but I can't find that in the actual documentation. – jordanm Apr 09 '13 at 20:20
@jordanm, `man ls` for GNU ls tells you to continue reading with the `info page` where it's explained (and that's not for extended attributes, and AFAIK, POSIX doesn't specify extended attributes (though there once was a now-defunct draft that specified extended ACLs which you may be referring to)) – Stéphane Chazelas Apr 09 '13 at 20:22

What is the @ after directory listing mean?

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