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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